Describe the performance contexts of gamelan music and give three examples

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• Javanese music is more closely related to other aspects of life than music in the "concert-music-culture" of the West (see Chapter 3, p. 104.). ". . . presentations of the more traditional gamelan music are best understood as social events that involve gamelan music."
• As entertainment and for ritual purposes at important life events (weddings, births, and so on)
• To accompany dance or theater, for example, accompanying shadow puppet theater (wayang kulit—see Fig. 7-7, Worlds of Music p. 343).

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