1. Javanese Court Gamelan Balinese Gamelan Gong Kebyar
Indonesia II
Javanese Court Gamelan
Balinese Gamelan Gong Kebyar

2. Site 6: Javanese Court Gamelan
First Impressions
Metallic music with “misty” interlude
Aural Analysis
Mostly metallophones
“Soft & Strong” styles
Colotomic structure
Above: Metallophones of the Javanese gamelan.
Right: Gender (metallophone with bamboo resonators)

3. Colotomic Structure Principal Melody Periodic Punctuation
Rack gongs and large metallophones
Periodic Punctuation
Marked by Hanging Gongs
Embellishment
Small metallophones
“Mist” of the music
Gong ageng

4. Bubaran “Kembang Pacar”
Pelog (seven-tone scale, vis-à-vis slendro)
Balungan
Punctuation
Drum
Elaboration

8. Bubaran drum patterns

9. Cultural Considerations
Islam
Court Music
Tranquility
Dance

10. Site 7: Balinese Gamelan Gong Kebyar
First Impressions
Dynamic shifts of mood
Aural Analysis
Starts and stops
Sectional solos
“Superhuman speed”
“Shimmer effect”
A pair of gender wayang

11. Cultural Considerations
Hindu
Offering to deities
Dynamic dance
Shadow puppets
A young boy dances to gamelan accompaniment
Wayang Kulit (shadow puppet theatre)