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gamelanIndigenous orchestra of Java and Bali and, more generally, of Indonesia and Malaysia. A gamelan usually consists largely of gongs, xylophones, and metallophones (rows of tuned metal bars struck with a mallet). Gamelan polyphony is complex and many-voiced. The melody is taken by the voice, flute, or rebab (a bowed stringed instrument); under it, most of the other instruments provide rhythmic paraphrases of the melody, producing a shimmering, variegated texture. The gamelan has influenced many Western composers, including Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. |
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| Karole Armitage created a new work, Gamelan Gardens, which also pushed the dancers' technical comfort zone. Music from the Morning of the World The Balinese Gamelan & Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant Nonesuch Explorer Series 79196-2 (1967) He persuasively contends that the New Order gave birth to several "superstar" puppeteers who were able, through access to financial and institutional resources, to dominate the field and exercise disproportionate influence over new trends in the genre's development, including the use of larger, more expensive multilaras gamelan sets, which offered wider musical possibilities. |
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