Listen to Ladrang “Wilujeng,” in order to compare this style of gamelan music to the loud-playing style of gamelan music you heard the original field recording of Bubaran “Kembang Pacar.” What similarities do you hear? What differences do you hear? (Answers may vary.)
What will be an ideal response?
—Similarities
• Punctuating percussion instruments playing cyclic, interlocking patterns
• Sections set off by deep gong sound
• Music based on a non-Western scale system
• Music dominated by a single melody (balungan)
• Varied repetitions/elaborations of basic melody at different tempi are occurring simultaneously
• Tempos change
—Differences Kembang Pacar Ladrang "Wilujeng"
• Timbres are distinctly different Instrumental Vocal
• Instrument playing the introduction bonang (kettle gongs) rebab (fiddle)
• Gamelan ensembles have different sound qualities bronze instruments in loud-playing style iron/brass instruments in soft-playing style
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