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Mataraman — General

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MTR-GAMELAN

Gamelan

A traditional Javanese musical ensemble consisting of instruments such as gongs, kenong, saron, bonang, and others.

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Tata Krama

A system of etiquette, unggah-ungguh, and social behaviour emphasizing respect and social harmony.

Read entry →DEMO-KG-MTR-18D049

Bonang

A set of small tuned kettle gongs resting horizontally on a wooden frame, played with two padded sticks. It elaborates the…

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Demung

The largest and lowest metallophone of the saron family, with broad bars and a heavy mallet.

Read entry →DEMO-KG-MTR-FDB4E6

Gambang

A xylophone with wooden bars spanning several octaves, played with two flexible mallets in rapid parallel octaves.

Read entry →DEMO-KG-MTR-69C82D

Gamelan Jawa

The Javanese gamelan ensemble: a tuned set of bronze percussion instruments, together with drum, bowed and plucked strings,…

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Gender

A metallophone of thin bars over tube resonators, played with two disc-shaped mallets in interlocking patterns, one hand…

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Gendhing

A composed piece of karawitan, identified by its melodic skeleton, its cycle length, its tuning and its mode rather than…

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Gerong

The male chorus of karawitan, singing in unison in fixed passages, in contrast to the free line of the solo singer.

Read entry →DEMO-KG-MTR-302A55

Gong ageng

The great hanging gong, struck at the close of the longest cycle. Its stroke marks the boundary of musical time and is treated…

Read entry →DEMO-KG-MTR-8C0047

Karawitan

The art of Javanese gamelan music: an ensemble practice governed by tuning system, mode, and a repertoire of composed pieces,…

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Kempul

A smaller hanging gong, or set of them, struck within the cycle to mark subdivisions between the great gong strokes.

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Kendhang

A double-headed drum played with the hands, which sets the tempo, signals changes of density, and brings the piece to its…

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Kenong

A large kettle gong resting horizontally in its own frame, struck to divide the cycle into equal parts.

Read entry →DEMO-KG-MTR-3C4AE9

Kethuk

A small kettle gong with a dry, damped sound, struck on the offbeats to keep the inner pulse of the cycle.

Read entry →DEMO-KG-MTR-CC5A9F

Laras

A tuning system: the set of pitches a gamelan is tuned to. Two are in use, and instruments of one cannot be played with…

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Niyaga

A gamelan player. The role carries an etiquette of its own: how to sit, how to enter a piece, and when not to play.

Read entry →DEMO-KG-MTR-AED7CA

Pathet

The modal system within a tuning: which tones may end a phrase, which are avoided, and where in a night-long performance…

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Peking

The smallest and highest metallophone of the saron family, which doubles the melody at speed.

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Pelog

A tuning system of seven tones with unequal steps, from which five are selected for any one piece, heard as tense beside…

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Pengrawit

A gamelan musician, particularly a practised one. The word is preferred in teaching contexts, where it carries a sense of…

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Rancak

The carved wooden frame that holds the bars or kettles of an instrument. Its decoration marks the status of the set it belongs…

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Rebab

A two-stringed bowed spike fiddle. Not fixed to the tuning of the bronze, it leads the melody and sets the pitch for the…

Read entry →DEMO-KG-MTR-3C58B8

Saron

A metallophone of thick bronze bars over a trough resonator, struck with a wooden mallet and damped by the free hand. It…

Read entry →DEMO-KG-MTR-74566C

Sindhen

The solo female singer of karawitan, who sings elaborate melodic lines against the ensemble rather than with it.

Read entry →DEMO-KG-MTR-3EA10D

Siter

A plucked zither with strings on both faces of a box resonator, played with the thumbnails while the fingers damp.

Read entry →DEMO-KG-MTR-9A0AC9

Slendro

A tuning system of five tones spaced in near-equal steps across the octave, heard as open and even.

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Slenthem

A metallophone of thin bronze bars suspended over tuned tube resonators, sounding an octave below the saron with a sustained,…

Read entry →DEMO-KG-MTR-312565

Suling

An end-blown bamboo ring flute, which floats free of the ensemble pulse and fills the spaces in the melody.

Read entry →DEMO-GAMELAN-MM

Gamelan — Demo Multimodal

A demonstration entry showing how a single lexicon entry can simultaneously include image, audio, video, and 3D model representations.…

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