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Gamelan

Gamelan. What is gamelan?. Gamelan is a traditional Indonesian instrumental ensemble made up of mainly percussion instruments: gongs, metallophones, xylophones, drums, cymbals. Where does gamelan come from?. Gamelan comes from Indonesia. There are two main styles; Balinese

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Gamelan

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  1. Gamelan

  2. What is gamelan? Gamelan is a traditional Indonesian instrumental ensemble made up of mainly percussion instruments: gongs, metallophones, xylophones, drums, cymbals.

  3. Where does gamelan come from? Gamelan comes from Indonesia. There are two main styles; Balinese (from Bali) and Javanese (from Java)

  4. What does it sound like? Listen to the following examples of gamelan music. Some European composers have been influenced by gamelan music. Its influences can be especially seen in minimalism, which shares many of the same features – repetition, cyclic rhythms, loops etc

  5. The Slendro Scale C D E G A The five-note Gamelan scale is called the Slendro. Gamelan notes don’t exactly match Western scales but the slendro is roughly equivalent to the notes of the major pentatonic scale on C – C,D,E,G,A

  6. The Pelog Scale C D E A B C D The seven-note gamelan scale is called Pelog. To get an idea of what the pelog scale sounds like, play the notes E,F,G,A,B,C,D on a keyboard. Most sets of gamelan are tuned either to the slendro or to the pelog scale. Others are tuned to both – these are called double gamelan.

  7. Instruments with keys The keys of an instrument can be bronze, iron, wood or bamboo. They are arranged in a xylophone-like manner, always horizontally. The player faces the long side of the instrument.

  8. The Gambang is a xylophone with wooden bars

  9. The Gender has narrow keys made of bronze. Below the keys there are bamboo pipes which resonate, making the sound richer.

  10. Gongs Gongs are made of bronze or iron. They are struck on the central bump, called peñcu.

  11. The Bonang are instruments with two rows of gongs resting on cords across a wooden frame.

  12. The biggest hanging gong is called the Gong Ageng. It usually plays on the last beat of the rhythmic cycle.

  13. Kempul are smaller hanging gongs.

  14. The Kenong and Ketuk are gongs which rest horizontally on cords stretched across a wooden box.

  15. The Suling is a bamboo wind instrument, which you blow through the end The Rebab is a two stringed fiddle

  16. The bigger drum is the Kendang Gending and the smaller one is called the Ketipung. They are cone-shaped, with two drum skins, one larger and one smaller. They’re played resting sideways, so the drummer can play one skin with each hand.

  17. In groups compose a Balinese-style piece that consists of the following layers:1 – an 8 or 16 note core melody which uses the notes of the slendro scale, and moves in even crotchets.2 – an alto/tenor part which only plays notes 1,3,5 and 7 (and 9,11,13,15)3 – a bass part which only plays notes 1 and 5 (and 9 and 13)4 - a two-part interlocking melody of 8 beats

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