Indonesia Flashcards
What is Java?
An island of Indonesia, bordered by the Indian Ocean on the south and the Java Sea on the north.
What is Bali?
A province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Located east of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighboring islands.
What is Gamelan?
A traditional ensemble music of Java and Bali in Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.
What is a Metallophone?
Any musical instrument consisting of tuned metal bars which are struck to make sound, usually with a mallet.
What is a Laras?
A pentatonic scale used in Indonesian gamelan music.
What is a Slendro?
A type of pentatonic scale, the two most common types of which are Laras and Pelog.
What is a pentatonic scale?
A musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the more familiar heptatonic scale that has seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).
What is Pelog?
A one of the two main types of Slendro pentatonic scales.
What is a Heptatonic scale?
A scale that has seven noted per octave (such as a major or minor scale).
What is Balungan?
It is sometimes called the “core melody” or “skeletal melodic outline” of a Javanese gamelan composition.
What is Colotomy?
A description of the rhythmic and metric patterns of gamelan music. It refers to the use of specific instruments to mark off nested time intervals.
What is a Gongan?
The time interval between gong ageng strikes, which are subordinate to the tempo.
What is a Kenong?
An Indonesian Idiophone. A gong used in the Indonesian gamelan.
What is a Kethuk?
A set of two standing Indonesian gongs, Idiophones.
What is a Kempul?
A set of pitched, hanging, knobbed gongs, often made of bronze, wood, and cords. Used in the Javanese gamelan. Idiophone.
