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MORNING!
Lesson 1
MUSIC OF INDONESIA
 MUSIC OF INDONESIA
Gamelan
• most famous form of Indonesian music.
• means orchestra
• 75-member ensemble, composed of various
percussion instruments (metallophones, gongs,
drums, and spike fiddles) Bamboo Flutes and
some chordophones are also included.
Rich texture (30 layers of sound)
Melody: saron, xylophone
Metallophones plays higher
tones
Some gamelans add vocalist
 INSTRUMENTS used in gamelan
Saron- is a xylophone with five to nine keys. It uses
wooden mallet called tabuh.

Gambang- is a xylophone with twenty-one keys

made from wood. It also used to combine with
saron

Bonang- are kettle-like instruments arranged

according to their pitch from the highest to lowest.

Gender – an instrument that has keys made of

bronze. It is played using padded mallets

Gongs – support the fixed melody

Kendang- is a two-headed drum used to keep the

tempo. It signals the transitions of the entire
ensemble.
MUSICAL FORMS
Tapanuli Ogong Musical form for dance using trumpet, lute and flute
Is a poem set to music
Tembang Sunda accompanied by instruments,
such as kacapi

Qasidah Is a religious chanted poetry

accompanied by percussion
instruments

Is an instrumental music that uses

Kecapi Suling many on-the spot embellishments
with the accompaniment of zither
and a bamboo flute
Rich texture (30 layers of sound)

Melody: saron, xylophone Musical Forms

• Tapanuli Ogong
Metallophones plays higher
tones • Tembang Sunda
• Qasidah
Some gamelans add vocalist
• Kecapi Suling

Instruments used in Gamelan

Saron, Gambang, Bonang,

Gongs, Gender and Kendang
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MUSIC OF INDONESIA
Lesson 1
MUSIC OF THAILAND
Thailand music reveals Thailand’s interaction
with Africa, Europe (Rome and Greece), and
Asia (Iran, Indonesia, India and China).
Their influences are evident in the Thai
musical systems, instruments, styles and
forms.
Classical Music-Polyphonic, two or more melodic lines heard
simultaneously).
Thai music has steady tempo, standard pulse, and duple meter. It
uses either pentatonic (five-tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scale
Piphat
used in Thai classical music. This small
orchestra of wind and percussion instruments
accompanies Buddhist ceremonies. Two ranat,
pi, klong, khong wong lek, and khong wong
yai.
(Thai dance-drama (khon), classical dance
(lakhan) and shadow puppet presentation.
Kho
n
Piphat
Khrueang Sai
Means string ensemble. A
typical Khrueang sai
ensemble features saw
duang, saw u, jakhe, khlui,
hand drums and various
cymbals: It is primarily
used for instrumental
indoor performances and
for accompanying puppet
theater (hoon grabok).
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MUSIC OF THAILAND