| As those of you who have seen gamelan dance can imagine, I was totally transfixed. |
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| The University of Pittsburgh Music Department offers classes in gamelan and African music and dance as part of its program in Ethnomusicology. |
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| The ogoh-ogoh, escorted by groups of people carrying bamboo torches and a loud gamelan ensemble, are paraded on the night before Nyepi. |
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| Instead of being accompanied by a traditional gamelan orchestra, the dance was accompanied by the Erwin Gutawa Orchestra along with a choir. |
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| The gamelan of Bali in particular attracted him, as it had Debussy and Ravel, with its sharp contrasts of rippling color and percussive blows. |
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| The Soepra gamelan used in the charity performance in Bandung, Sukisno noted, was already five years old and had not been retuned. |
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| Now, they may play modern musical instruments such as drums and keyboards in the gamelan orchestra. |
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| The gamelan structure therefore provides an excellent scene for musical and cultural socialization. |
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| Some 40 people, most of them children, practice Balinese traditional dances and the gamelan at his workshop and home. |
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| It is performed by a simplified gamelan orchestra blending soft-sounding percussion instruments with the melancholy sounds of a flute. |
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| The gamelan instruments were placed on supports high enough for Western musicians to play without having to sit cross-legged. |
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| The full gamelan orchestra consists of bronze gongs, keyed metallophones, drums, a flute, a rebab fiddle, and a celempung zither. |
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| Through the kampong's black palms came the sound of galloping gamelan orchestras and bamboo sticks clacking away the evil spirits. |
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| In Legong Keraton, as in much Balinese dance, the movement is closely associated with the intricate rhythms produced by the gamelan ensemble. |
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| Their music was a rainbow of sounds and songs drawn from gamelan to pop, via jazz and Terry Riley's minimalism. |
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| Somewhere in the gardens a gamelan player spreads a musical spell, charming the moon to rise like a mirror out of the sea. |
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| Each gamelan has its own tuning, preventing instruments from being interchanged from one gamelan to another. |
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| Debussy was among those who heard them, and began a tradition of transforming the gamelan into concert music. |
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| She last saw the Prince on Monday when he visited the Royal College and played a gamelan, a traditional Indonesian instrument. |
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| Then one day he stuck paper clips on his guitar-strings and they bonged like gamelan bells. |
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| The instruments of the gamelan produce unique sounds which accompany almost all traditional and religious ceremonies in Bali. |
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| It starts with what sounds like the distant chimes of gamelan music reverberating around a cavern and then morphs into a different winding style every eight minutes or so. |
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| There is no cymbal-clashing, gong-bashing gamelan of the kind that accompanies older, more conventional dance forms, such as barong and legong. |
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| There is also very characteristic music, performed by the gamelan, theatre, which features, among others, the mythical barong. |
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| In Bali she founded the Balinese gamelan orchestras Tirta and Irama. |
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| Intimations of jazz, Balinese gamelan, African drumming and Japanese music floated from welters of rapid passagework. |
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| In Bali, the gamelan gong orchestra opens ceremonies and provides most of the music for temple feasts. |
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| For example, gamelan music is completely foreign to Canadian audiences although it is well known to people in Southeast Asia. |
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| Then there is the wide array of instrument choices, from wooden blocks, to Indonesian gamelan, to marimba, to African drum. |
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| And let yourself be seduced by the Balinese traditional dances to the rhythmic sound of gamelan. |
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| Released four years ago, it features digitally restored gamelan music recorded in the early 1940s by two Americans. |
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| The Dalang is also an orchestra conductor as the gamelan musicians must accompany him and follow his story. |
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| They are accompanied by an orchestra of gamelan which supports their action. |
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| The music plinks along like a drunken gamelan, and random flecks of percussion, which include solitary hand claps, throw the listener even further off kilter. |
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| There are a wide array of xylophone-like keyed instruments, which provide the distinctive metallic rhythms and shimmering melodies that are the foundation of gamelan music. |
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| During the performance, gamelan players are required to display both music and dance skills, exhibiting a perfect blend of expressive dance movements and harmonious music. |
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| Popular with visitors to Indonesia, today the gamelan is used almost exclusively at puppet shows, traditional dance and marriage ceremonies. |
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| This include weaponry, such as the distinctive kris, and musical instruments, such as the gamelan. |
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| The gamelans used in all Balinese processions are the gamelan gong gilak, a set of gongs, cymbals, gong-chimes, and drums. |
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| Combining the gamelan orchestra with western instruments is no simple matter however, since both the tuning and scales of gamelan instruments are different from those of western ones. |
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| The examples of gamelan phrases were given for C clef instruments, and, with some small adaptation for the guitar, led me to a huge study of polyrhythms for the guitar and beautiful musical discoveries thereafter. |
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| Examples include Tibetan singing bowls, temple bells of many sizes and shapes, gongs, Javanese gamelan and other bronze musical instruments. |
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| While the album's producers acknowledged the vitality of gamelan music today, they express anxieties about the recent impact of tourism on gamelan performance. |
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| The Festival de la Bâtie this year will feature, among other shows, performances by traditional gamelan musicians from the Indonesian island Bali. |
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| Founded in 2002, the ensemble is as passionate about environmental issues as it is about its music, which includes a wide range of influences including gamelan and pop. |
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| In addition, a unique and valuable group of objects from Java, including shadow puppets and a gamelan musical set, was assembled by Sir Stamford Raffles. |
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| Consisting of gongs, xylophones and drums accented by flute and plucked strings, a gamelan ensemble can feature anywhere from two to 35 musicians. |
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| The second section looks at music as communication and community, with essays on topics such as the gamelan community in Dunedin and musical reassemblage in the jazz diaspora. |
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| The album's music was premiered at last year's Cheltenham Jazz Festival and it also features stray global elements, aspects of Indonesian gamelan and Malian kora music. |
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| The Gathering of the Northern Gamelans Festival is celebrating Indonesian culture and music, including the use of teak and bronze gongs to create distinctive gamelan tunes. |
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| In this study, he draws on his academic background in ethnomusicology to explore the complex relationship between the gamelan music of Java and the West. |
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| While in the US, Britten had his first encounter with Balinese gamelan music, through transcriptions for piano duo made by the Canadian composer Colin McPhee. |
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| Classic arts of Java include gamelan music and wayang puppet shows. |
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