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What does gamelan mean?

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Noun
  1. (music) A genre of music of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs and a bamboo flute (called a siuling).
  2. The name of the ensemble performing this style of music.
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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.
The University of Pittsburgh Music Department offers classes in gamelan and African music and dance as part of its program in Ethnomusicology.
It is performed by a simplified gamelan orchestra blending soft-sounding percussion instruments with the melancholy sounds of a flute.
Debussy was among those who heard them, and began a tradition of transforming the gamelan into concert music.
Some 40 people, most of them children, practice Balinese traditional dances and the gamelan at his workshop and home.
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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