Sabtu, 15 September 2007

The culture and the Balinese

Traditional Balinese music had the similarity with traditional music in many other areas in Indonesia, for example in the use of the gamelan and various musical instruments tabuh other.
Nevertheless, was gotten by the special characteristics in the technique played and his composition, for example in the form of kecak, that is a form of song that it seems imitated the monkey voice. Likewise heterogenous the gamelan that was played then had the uniqueness, for example the Jegog Gamelan, Gamelan Gong Gede, Gamelan Gambang, Gamelan Selunding, and the Semar Pegulingan Gamelan. Angklung music was played for the cremation ceremony, as well as Bebonangan music was played in various other ceremonies.
Gotten by the modern form from traditional Balinese music, for example the Gong Kebyar Gamelan that was dance music that was developed in the Dutch colonisation period, as well as Joged Bumbung that began to be popular in Bali since the era in the 1950 's.Generally Balinese music was the combination of various metal percussion instruments (metalofon), the gong, and wood percussion (the xylophone).Because of social relations, politics and the culture, traditional Balinese music or the game of the Balinese style gamelan gave the influence or affected mutual areas of the culture around it, for example to traditional music the Banyuwangi community as well as traditional music the Lombok community.
The Dance

Art the Balinese dance could be generally categorised to three groups; that is the guardian or sacred art of the performance dance, bebali or art of the performance dance for the ceremony but also for the visitor, and balih-balihan or dance art for the visitor's entertainment.

The expert in dance art Balinese I Made Bandem at the beginning of the 1980 's had classed this Balinese dance; in part that be classed as in the guardian for example Berutuk, Sang Hyang Dedari, Rejang and the Gede Line, bebali including being Gambuh, Topeng Pajegan, and the Wong Puppet, whereas balih-balihan including being Legong, Parwa, Arja, Prembon and Joged, as well as various other modern dance choreography.

One of the dances that was very popular for the tourists was the Kecak Dance. Around the 1930 's, Wayan Limbak co-operated with the German painter of Walter Spies created this dance be based on the tradition Sanghyang and parts the Ramayana story. Wayan Limbak popularised this dance when travelling around the world with the party of his Balinese dancer.

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