Music of Indonesia

Question 1

It is the orchestra of Indonesia.

Answer 1

Gamelan

Question 2

What is the maximum members of the orchestra of Indonesia.

Answer 2

75 members

Question 3

What is the musical foundation of gamelan music

Answer 3

Saron

Question 4

These are the musical instruments used to mark off time intervals in the best cycle

Answer 4

Colotomic instruments

Question 5

These are xylophones with five to nine keys each.

Answer 5

Sarons

Question 6

These are the keys that are hit with a wooden mallet called?

Answer 6

Tabuh

Question 7

This is a category of the Sarons which is known to be the largest and plays the melody.

Answer 7

Saron Demung

Question 8

This is a category of Sarons which is an octave higher than the demung.

Answer 8

Saron barung

Question 9

This is a category of Sarons which plays the melody but doubles the note and creates syncopation.

Answer 9

Saron panerus

Question 10

This is a category of Sarons which plays an octave lower than the demung.

Answer 10

Saron slentem

Question 11

This is an idiophone xylophone with twenty-one keys made from wood

Answer 11

Gambang

Question 12

Are the Gambangs played all the time with the sarons?

Answer 12

Sometimes

Question 13

These are instruments that support the fixed melody.

Answer 13

Gongs

Question 14

This is a category of Gongs that is a huge suspended gong that marks repetition of the fixed melody.

Answer 14

Gong ageng

Question 15

This is a category of Gongs which is a suspended definite-pitched gong that sounds an octave higher than the gong ageng.

Answer 15

Kempul

Question 16

This is a category of Gongs which is known to be hanging in a horizontal box, looks like a kettle that sounds an octave higher.

Answer 16

Kenong

Question 17

This is a two-headed drum used to keep the tempo and signal some of the transitions of the entire ensemble.

Answer 17

Kendang

Question 18

These instruments are metallophones with the keys of bronze, these are played using pair of padded mallets.

Answer 18

Genders

Question 19

This is a category of Genders which is the highest-pitched among the genders.

Answer 19

Gender panerus

Question 20

This is a category of Genders which is an octave lower than the gender panerus.

Answer 20

Gender barung

Question 21

This is a category of Genders that is even lower that plays the main theme.

Answer 21

Gender demung

Question 22

This is a category of Genders which is known to be the lowest in this family of metallophones.

Answer 22

Gender slentem

Question 23

This instrument is like the genders and sarons, these kettle-like instruments are arranged according to their from highest to lowest-bonang panerus, bonang barung, and bonang panembung.

Answer 23

Bonangs

Question 24

This instrument is known to be bowed instrument, this resembles a violin but with only two strings and heart-shaped resontor

Answer 24

Rebab

Question 25

This instrument is an end-blown flute, it is sometimes included in the gamelan ensemble to play ornamentation for the main theme.

Answer 25

Suling

Question 26

These are instruments made of bamboo tubes explicitly carved to achieve a tune in an octave

Answer 26

Angklung

Question 27

How is the angklung played?

Answer 27

By holding the base of the frame with one hand while the other hand shakes the instrument sideways rapidly.

Question 28

What do the Indonesians use for their tuning systems?

Answer 28

Microtones

Question 29

There are two types of tuned systems in Indonesia, what are they?

Answer 29

Slendro and Pelog

Question 30

This is a type of tuned system that consists of 5 tones.

Answer 30

Slendro

Question 31

This is a type of tuned system that consists of 7 tones.

Answer 31

Pelog

Question 32

This is a musical form of dance using trumpet, lute, and flute.

Answer 32

Tapanuli agong

Question 33

This is a musical form also called cianjuran, is a poem set to music accompanied by instruments such as kacapi.

Answer 33

Tembang sunda

Question 34

This is a musical form which is known as a religious chanted poetry accompanied by percussion instruments.

Answer 34

Qasidah

Question 35

This is a musical form which is an instrumental music that uses many on-the-spot embellishments or musical ornamentations with the accompaniment of a zither and a bamboo flute

Answer 35

Kecapi suling