How does the female solo singer in Ladrang “Wilujeng” display “flexibility and constraint”?

What will be an ideal response?


• Sometimes she sings florid vocal phrases that "weave in and out of the balungan part . . . [in a] much freer rhythm than the steady pulsation of most of the instruments" (flexibility)
• But usually her phrases "end on the same tone as the balungan phrase" (constraint)
• Her phrases resemble those of other singers [in the recording] (constraint)
• In some small ways they are her individual patterns." (flexibility)

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