CD 2:4 Demonstration of above Bubaran “Kembang Pacar” pélog pathet nem
Listen again to the demonstration track CD 2:4 which presents the 4 phrases (gongan A-D) which comprise the Main Melody (balungan) of Bubaran “Kembang Pacar”.
What will be an ideal response?
—See if you can hear the patterns of repetition in the melody. Study the accompanying Close Listening guide of the demonstration track CD 2:4 in WOM, pp. 225 as you listen.
—Follow the entrances of the different percussion instruments as they enter, creating punctuation layers and adding rhythmic texture to the music.
—Note how the rhythmic texture becomes denser as each instrument enters and also note how all of the percussion parts are subdividing the gongan phrase into different units. Some of these subdivision units are short and close together, other subdivision units are longer and further apart. Yet all the punctuating percussion parts interlock together.
—Notice that the rhythmic tension builds until it is resolved by the cyclic recurrence of a strong beat where several punctuating instruments coincide including the Gong, which "marks the ends of all major phrases [gong ageng]."
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