gamelan

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• Areas of focus might include Indian ragas, the Javanese gamelan, Gypsy music, the Appalachian folk song tradition, spirituals, and the blues.

  Academic text (1998)

• The many interrelated layers of melodies in the gamelan are derived from balungan, a skeleton or main melody.

  Academic text (2015)

• As a closing exercise for the project, students provided a description of a gamelan and its purpose, which they wrote in their journals.

  Academic text (1994)

• The registers of the gamelan instruments determine the density of the layers.

  Academic text (2015)

• The university students watched as Morrison and her students demonstrated many aspects of the gamelan.

  Academic text (2006)

• The first example was a commercial recording of gamelan music, the traditional pitched percussion ensemble native to Indonesia.

  Academic text (2015)

• An old Dutch building is now a puppet museum featuring Javanese shadow plays and gamelan music.

  Academic text (1993)

• One of the teachers, Dorothy Morrison, brought her eighth graders to the university to demonstrate the Balinese gamelan.

  Academic text (2006)

• General music teachers can adapt instruments (e.g., modifying Orff instruments so they approximate the sound of a gamelan) or substitute instruments when performing music of various traditions.

  Academic text (2006)

• The gamelan ensemble filled the air with beautiful sounds, as the musicians played their bronze instruments in harmony.

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