32 Facts About Gamelan

Gamelan is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.

Gamelan is played to accompany religious rituals, ceremonies, dance, dance-drama, traditional theater, wayang puppets theatre, singing, concerts, festivals, exhibitions, and many more.

In 2014, Gamelan traditions were recognized as part of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage of Indonesia by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture.

Gamelan predates the Hindu-Buddhist culture that dominated Indonesia in its earliest records and thus represents an indigenous art form of Indonesia.

Gamelan needed a signal to summon the gods and thus invented the gong.

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Gamelan Selonding is part of daily life and culture for some indigenous people in ancient villages such as Bungaya, Bugbug, Seraya, Tenganan Pegringsingan, Timbrah, Asak, Ngis, Bebandem, Besakih, and Selat in Karangasem Regency.

The Gamelan Sekaten exists in halves: divided between the two rival courts in Surakarta and Yogyakarta, each court had a matching second half made.

Gamelan was deliberately made to entertain himself after his beloved child died.

Gamelan is a multi-timbre ensemble consisting of metallophones, xylophones, flutes, gongs, voices, as well as bowed and plucked strings.

In Bali, the Gamelan instruments are all kept together in a bale, a large open space with a roof over the top of it and several open sides.

Gamelan music is traditionally not notated and began as an oral tradition.

Gamelan pakurmatan is used for certain events or rituals in the royal environment.

Gamelan in Javanese society is a product of local wisdom that has survived to this day.

Gamelan is inseparable from Javanese customs and human life, where gamelan is almost always there in every Javanese ceremony are held.

Gamelan Ensemble was played to accompany the inauguration of the Prince of the late Paku Alam VII at Pakualaman Palace, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, before 1949.

In terms of religion, Balinese Gamelan is often displayed to accompany the running of religious ceremonies or to accompany sacred traditional dances.

Meanwhile, in terms of entertainment, Balinese Gamelan is often presented as a musical performance as well as accompaniment to various arts that are entertainment in Bali.

Gamelan's role in rituals is so important that there is a Javanese saying, "It is not official until the gong is hung".

Gamelan is used in the ceremonies of the Catholic church in Indonesia.

Gamelan music that accompanies dance drama is a combination of music whose rhythm is in accordance with the dance movements and as an illustration.

Gamelan is used to accompany all puppet shows, including wayang kulit, wayang golek, wayang klithik, wayang beber, etc.

Gamelan is a complement and supporter of wayang performances, which is still favored by Indonesians.

Gamelan is played to support the atmosphere that Dalang wants to build in a wayang performance.

Gamelan, which is the music accompanying the puppet show, is played in pelog or slendro tones according to the atmosphere of the scene being played.

Gamelan has been appreciated by several western composers of classical music, most famously Claude Debussy, who heard a Javanese gamelan in the premiere of Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray's Rhapsodie Cambodgienne at the Paris Exposition of 1889 .

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Gamelan elements are used in this film to punctuate several exciting fight scenes, as well as to symbolize the emerging psychic powers of the tragic hero, Tetsuo.

Sundanese Gamelan Degung being played in Museo Nacional de las Culturas Mexico, Indra Swara Gamelan Group, on 2 April 2018.

Gamelan ensemble accompanying barong performance at Garuda Wisnu Kencana cultural complex, Bali, Indonesia.

Gamelan ensemble consisting of children in a temple complex in Bali, between 1910 and 1920.

Gamelan set in an exhibition at the museum of the Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences, Batavia, circa 1896.

Gamelan Sekati is being played to accompany Sekaten Ceremony in front of Kauman Great Mosque in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on 27 April 2004.

Gamelan Ensemble accompanies Wayang Kulit Show in Java, circa 1870.