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Notes
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- 4 of 8 audio tracks
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- Gamelan angklung is a village ceremonial orchestra which, although considered one of the oldest of Balinese gamelan, is still very common today. Most villages have at least one gamelan angklung which is used for all temple ceremonies and village festivals, and in most areas for cremation, tooth-filing and purification ceremonies. -- The name derives from the tuned, shaken bamboo rattle angklung kocok which was at one time used in the ensemble, but which has now virtually disappeared throughout Bali. The modern gamelan angklung instruments have bronze keys usually tuned to a four-note scale. As in many Balinese gamelan ensembles, the instruments are paired and tuned slightly apart to create a characteristic beating sound. -- The piece played here is called The Dance ofMerdah (Ipuk Merdah). Merdah is a clown servant, one of the characters in the shadow puppet theatre. This particular version comes from Banjar Bedil, Sukawati in South Bali, where it is used for ingabe, a cremation ceremony. --The particular set of instruments played here bears the name Gamelan Kembang Kirang, “Missing Flower”, which refers to their use of a four- note rather than the more common five-note tuning. The instruments come from Gentong in central South Bali where they were buried beneath a temple for some eighty years to escape a curse. They were discovered by Chris Geddes, who brought them to Britain in 1988.
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- Copyright 1998. SOAS University of London
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- Funded in part by a grant from the Arts & Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom
Record Information
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- SOAS University of London
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- SOASIS CD 01 ( SOAS Information Systems number )
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