Traditional Music of Bali

It Bali music is extremely complex and dynamic. The original purpose for the music again, is to serve religious beliefs, accompanying dance or wayang theatres. The traditional Balinese orchestra called gamelan, is composed of various types of percussion, with notes of passage and overlap between different kinds. There are a number of stringed instruments and wind, but most of the players, which can range from a few to several dozen, sit behind different types of metallophones, gongs and xylophones. Each has its own gamelan setting, which prevents it from being instruments of a gamelan interchangeable with another.

The music of Bali has inspired composers well known to everyone. Bela Bartok No.109 his piece entitled "From the island of Bali." It is also said that Debussy, after meeting a musician and Balinese saw a Balinese orchestra performed in Europe, was very impressed and touched, and that much of his later works contain colors of Balinese music.

But Colin McPhee (1900-1964), born in Montreal, author and musician, has probably been the most affected, as well as the most influential in the Balinese music. History has it that his life-changing moment happened in New York, at its first meeting vinyl Balinese gamelan. He set sail, so to speak, in Bali, and immersed himself in learning about and contributing to the Balinese music. His collection of Balinese music is extremely well-researched collection of various aspects of Balinese music. His Tabuh-tabuhan: toccata for orchestra has won him the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.

Tabuh-tabuhan is a collective name that literally translates into a collection of percussion instruments - Balinese gamelan. It consists of three movements: Ostinatos, Nocturne, and Finale. McPhee nuclear gamelan consists of two pianos, celesta, xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, with Balinese gongs and cymbals added to certain sounds. Created in Mexico in 1936, this piece fuses Balinese motifs, melodies and rhythms into a symphonic work. The signing of a Balinese flute melody inspires Nocturne, unmistakably similar to what you can hear as you walk through the village temple today. The finale is syncopated kinship to the tapestry formed by the village orchestra accompanying a folk dancing.

McPhee was also the main cause of the introduction of music and Balinese gamelan to the United States, many of ethnomusicology departments in various American universities today as well as performance groups in the house gamelan, and fortunately, some of them even have websites.

• Gamelan Sekar Jaya

This group is a nonprofit organization that conducts research and dances and music
Balinese, which is based in San Francisco and founded in 1979 by I Wayan Suweca, Rachel
Cooper and Michael Tenzer.

• Bali and beyond

This is a group of Los Angeles artists programs related to Indonesian culture.