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    Bali has its own unique musical styles and instruments, including kecak vocal music and various styles of gamelan ensembles. Gamelan features loud, fast, and aggressive music compared to Javanese gamelan, and includes bronze xylophones, gongs, flutes, and fiddles. Modern forms like energetic gamelan gong kebyar developed during the 20th century and include composed pieces played by musical clubs.

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    Bali has its own unique musical styles and instruments, including kecak vocal music and various styles of gamelan ensembles. Gamelan features loud, fast, and aggressive music compared to Javanese gamelan, and includes bronze xylophones, gongs, flutes, and fiddles. Modern forms like energetic gamelan gong kebyar developed during the 20th century and include composed pieces played by musical clubs.

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    26/07/2020 Music of Bali - Wikipedia

    Music of Bali
    The Music of Bali, Bali is an Indonesian island that
    shares in the gamelan and other Indonesian musical
    styles. Bali, however, has its own techniques and
    styles, including kecak, a form of singing that imitates
    the sound of monkeys. In addition, the island is home
    to several unique kinds of gamelan, including the
    gamelan jegog, gamelan gong gede, gamelan
    gambang, gamelan selunding and gamelan semar
    pegulingan, the cremation music angklung and the
    processional music bebonangan. Modern popular
    styles include gamelan gong kebyar, dance music
    which developed during the Dutch occupation and Balinese traditional musical instrument.
    1950's era joged bumbung, another popular dance
    style. In Balinese music you can also hear
    metallophones, gongs and xylophones.
    Music of Indonesia

    Contents
    Characteristics
    See also
    References
    External links Kempul gongs from Java
    Genres

    Characteristics Classical · Kecak · Kecapi suling ·


    Tembang sunda · Pop Indo · Dance-
    pop · Dangdut · Hip hop · Kroncong
    More than 50 people must be dancing during the music. Balinese
    music can be compared to Javanese music, especially that of the · Gambang kromong · Tanjidor ·
    pre-Islamic period. During that time, Javanese tonal systems Gambus · Jaipongan · Langgam
    were imported to Bali. jawa · Celempungan · Pop Batak ·
    Pop Minang · Pop Sunda · Qasidah
    Balinese gamelan, a form of Indonesian classical music, is louder, modern · Rock · Tapanuli ogong
    swifter and more aggressive than Javanese music. Balinese
    gamelan also features more archaic instrumentation than modern Specific forms
    Javanese gamelans. Balinese instruments include bronze and Gamelan · Angklung · Talempong ·
    bamboo xylophones. Gongs and a number of gong chimes, are Beleganjur · Degung · Gambang ·
    used, such as the solo instrument trompong, and a variety of Gender Wayang · Gong gede ·
    percussion instruments like cymbals, bells, drums and the Gong kebyar · Jegog · Joged
    anklung (a bamboo rattle). There are two sizes of bamboo flutes,
    bumbung · Salendro · Selunding ·
    both used in theatrical music, and a rebab (two-stringed spike
    Semar pegulingan · Melayu ·
    fiddle).
    Sasando · Saluang · Suling ·
    Modern forms of Balinese gamelan include kebyar, an energetic Kendang · Gendang beleq ·
    style played by clubs, which generally compose their own music. Gordang sambilan · Kulintang
    An extensive study of gamelan gong kebyar is found in Gamelan Regional music
    Bali · Borneo · Java · Moluccan

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    26/07/2020 Music of Bali - Wikipedia

    Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music Islands · Papua · Sulawesi ·
    (2000) by Michael Tenzer, ISBN 0-226-79281-1 and ISBN 0-226- Sumatra · Sunda
    79283-8.

    See also
    Music of Indonesia
    Music of Java
    Music of Sumatra

    References
    Balinese gamelan
    Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/B/Balin
    ese.asp)
    Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century
    Balinese Music (2000) by Michael Tenzer, ISBN 0-226-79281-
    1 and ISBN 0-226-79283-8.

    External links
    An Introduction to Balinese Music (http://gsj.org/Home/index.c
    fm?fuseaction=Library.DisplayDoc&thisFilename=BM_Introdu
    ction.htm#Sdef_gamelan) by Michael Tenzer Balinese musicians.

    Triguna: A Hindu-Balinese Philosophy for Gamelan Gong


    Gede Music (http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-8258-1230-0) by
    Made Mantle Hood

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