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Definition of Gamelan

1. Noun. A traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs.

Definition of Gamelan

1. Noun. A genre of music of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs and a bamboo flute (called a siuling). ¹

2. Noun. The name of the ensemble performing this style of music. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gamelan

1. a type of orchestra [n -S] - See also: orchestra

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gamelan

Literary usage of Gamelan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Letters of a Javanese Princess by Kartini (1920)
"The gamelan 2 in the pendopo 8 could speak to you better than I. Now it is ... There is one gamelan for religious celebrations, another for feasts of ..."

2. The Evolution of the Art of Music by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1906)
"The gamelan Pelog is a very different mode, and almost as singular. The first step would be from C to a note a little higher than E, the second to a note a ..."

3. A Voyage Round the World: Including an Embassy to Muscat and Siam, in 1835 by William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger (1838)
"At the opposite end of the passage to that where we were, sat two or three servants on the floor, with their knees drawn up to the chin; and the gamelan was ..."

4. The Art of Music by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1894)
"The gamelan Pelog is a very different mode, and almost as singular. The first step would be from C to a note a little higher than E, the second to a note a ..."

5. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1817)
"Music follows, and we are presented with three Javan airs, and a plate containing a good representation of a gamelan, or set of instruments, seventeen in ..."

6. Indonesia: Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Sulawesi by David E. Henley (2000)
"Today, the kraton houses a museum and stages regular gamelan and dance performances. Turnan Sari l"Fragrant Garden"), also known as the Water Castle, ..."

7. Indonesia by James Hardy (2002)
"It's a virtuoso one- man show; he speaks all their lines in a vast range of appropriate voices and conducts the small gamelan ..."

8. Letters of a Javanese Princess by Kartini (1920)
"The gamelan 2 in the pendopo 8 could speak to you better than I. Now it is ... There is one gamelan for religious celebrations, another for feasts of ..."

9. The Evolution of the Art of Music by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1906)
"The gamelan Pelog is a very different mode, and almost as singular. The first step would be from C to a note a little higher than E, the second to a note a ..."

10. A Voyage Round the World: Including an Embassy to Muscat and Siam, in 1835 by William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger (1838)
"At the opposite end of the passage to that where we were, sat two or three servants on the floor, with their knees drawn up to the chin; and the gamelan was ..."

11. The Art of Music by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1894)
"The gamelan Pelog is a very different mode, and almost as singular. The first step would be from C to a note a little higher than E, the second to a note a ..."

12. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1817)
"Music follows, and we are presented with three Javan airs, and a plate containing a good representation of a gamelan, or set of instruments, seventeen in ..."

13. Indonesia: Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Sulawesi by David E. Henley (2000)
"Today, the kraton houses a museum and stages regular gamelan and dance performances. Turnan Sari l"Fragrant Garden"), also known as the Water Castle, ..."

14. Indonesia by James Hardy (2002)
"It's a virtuoso one- man show; he speaks all their lines in a vast range of appropriate voices and conducts the small gamelan ..."

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