Javanese Gamelan Arts

Gamelan is the music created by the sound of gongs alloys, kenong and other Javanese musical instruments.
The rhythm of the music that is soft and reflects the harmony of Javanese life will soon greet and soothe the soul so heard.
Then, according to Om Wikipedia, the orchestra is a musical ensemble that usually highlight metallophone, xylophone, drums, and gongs. Gamelan orchestra there are many on the island of Java, Madura, Bali and Lombok in Indonesia in various ensemble sizes and shapes. In Bali and Lombok today, and in Java through the 18th century, the term gong is considered synonymous with gamelan.

Gamelan orchestra tuning and making is a complex process. Gamelan tuning using four ways, namely slendro, pelog, 'Degung' (special area of Sunda, or West Java), and 'madenda' (also referred to as diatonic, the same as the original minor scale that is widely used in Europe.

In her show in London yesterday, the spectators who crowded the British Museum in the BP Lecture Theatre made captivated. In the performance art show in London Southbank Gamelan and Javanese dance brought the dancer Ni Made Pujawati.

Let us move to the Island of the Gods or Bali. Artists Bali Art Festival held in Bali (PKB), one of whose objectives is to revive the ancient art and drum endangered species. One is Gambang which is a rare and sacred gamelan. Gambelan Gambang in several villages and the amounts can be counted on the fingers in Bali, conditions are quite alarming, because kesakralannya played only to accompany religious ceremonies. In central and southern Bali, the gamelan was played to accompany the ceremony Ngaben.

While in East Bali (Karangasem and vicinity) Gambang also played in relation to the ceremony in the temple ceremony Pretending (persembahyang place for Hindus), which penabuhnya nearly all elderly men because there is no regeneration, said the artist Dewa Nurjana this drum.
Gamelan Gambang, barreled Pelog (seven tones), formed by six-bladed instrument. The most dominant is the four-bladed instrument called a bamboo xylophone consisting of (the smallest to the biggest) pametit, panganter, panyelad, pamero and pangumbang.

Every instrument played by a drummer who take the pair of two-pronged pelvis to play a blow-ubitan kotekan or Ubit, and occasionally a single blow or kaklenyongan. Other instruments are 2 tungguh saron Krawang consisting of large sawn.

He said young people today hardly know many gambelan xylophone, the result of nothing so feared accelerate extinction learning, therefore it is expected that through PKB teenage children begin to know and love later.

The foreign artists who had studied at Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) of Bali, just a lot of studying art gambelan xylophone, and will be collaborated with the art in his country. Students who studied xylophone gambelan there from America, Europe and Japan.