Gamelan gong gede
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{{Music of Indonesia}}
Gamelan gong gede, meaning "gamelan with the large gongs", is a form of the ceremonial gamelan music of Bali, dating from the court society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, associated historically with public ceremonies and special occasions such as temple festivals.{{Sfn|Miller and Williams|2008|p=390}}
Style
Usually performed by a temple orchestra of over forty musicians,{{sfnp|Cooke|1998|p=xiii}} music written for the gong gede is sedate and graceful, following an andante tempo. It fluctuates in cycles, one fast, one slow, one loud, and one soft. The beat is provided by the largest gong.{{cite web|title=10 Facts about Balinese Gamelan|url=http://factfile.org/10-facts-about-balinese-gamelan|website=Fact File|access-date=18 October 2016}}
Popularity
During their colonization of Bali in the late nineteenth century, the Dutch dissolved the courts. The use of the gong gede became limited to temple music.{{sfnp|Mantle Hood|2011|p=9}} It was later superseded in popularity by gong kebyar, a more up-tempo form of gamelan played with smaller gongs, that originated in Balinese villages in the late 19th century and became widely popular in the 1920s and 1930s.{{sfnp|McPhee|1966|p=xiv}}
See also
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References
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Citations
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- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M-V1CNUNvl0C&q=Gamelan+gong+gede&pg=PR14|title=Britten and the Far East: Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten|first=Mervyn|last=Cooke|year=1998|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=9780851158303|access-date=2013-01-21}}
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gV09rfpgMwAC&q=Gamelan+gong+gede|title=Triguna: A Hindu-Balinese Philosophy for Gamelan Gong Gede Music|first=Made|last=Mantle Hood|year=2011|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|isbn=9783825812300|access-date=2013-01-21}}
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tyLkAAAAMAAJ|title=Music in Bali: a study in form and instrumental organization in Balinese orchestral music|first=Colin|last=McPhee|author-link=Colin McPhee|year=1966|publisher=Yale University Press|access-date=2013-01-22}}
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=im7j-tHxOLAC&q=Gamelan+gong+gede&pg=PA118|title=Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music|first=Michael|last=Tenzer|year=2000|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226792811|access-date=2013-01-21}}
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XDm80zCZGKAC&q=Gamelan+gong+gede&pg=PA390|title=The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music|editor1=Terry E. Miller |editor2=Sean Williams|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780415960755|access-date=2013-01-21|ref={{SfnRef|Miller and Williams|2008}} }}
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External links
Examples of recordings of gamelan gong gede:
- [http://www.medieval.org/music/world/cds/wml5153.html Gamelan Gong Gede of Batur Temple]
- [http://www.medieval.org/music/world/cds/ocr59002.html Bali: Musique pour le Gong Gede]
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