Indonesian music

• Pelog is a seven-tone scale with semitones.
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• Bahasa Indonesia is the national language of Indonesia.
• Bhinneka Tunggal Ika is the national motto of Indonesia, meaning unity in diversity.
• The Republic of Indonesia is an archipelago in Southeast Asia and the largest island country in the world, with 17,500 islands between the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean.
• Indonesia is the 4th most populous country, with more than 258 million people.
• Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia.
• Borobudur is the largest Buddhist monument in the world.
• Indonesian music is influenced by different styles from different countries.
• Vocal music in Indonesia is used as an ornamentation of the gamelan.
• Pasidhen is a female soloist in Indonesian music.
• Both vocal and instrumental music of Indonesia use these two basic indonesian music scales: Slendro and Pelog.
• Gamelan is the most popular form of music in Indonesia which includes a variety of instruments.
• Interlocking is a common technique used in gong ensembles.
• Javanese Gamelan has sudden changes of tempo and dynamics, very bright and brilliant sounds, and uses fast and rattling sounds of cymbals.
• Balinese Gamelan is used for court music and is percussion dominated.
• Stepping over the instrument is considered a sign of disrespect.
• Javanese Gamelan is used for sacred music and consists of metallophones and mostly gongs.
• Slendro is five equidistant tones in an octave.
• The word Gamelan came from the Javanese words gamel (hammer) and Balinese gambeli (to play musically).
• Gerong is a group of male chorus in Indonesian music.
• Gamelan uses polyphonic stratification, where music is composed in layers of simple, independent melodic lines or interlocking rhythmic patterns.
• The musicians give respect to the instruments by bowing before playing.
• Instrumental Music is music coming from an instrument.
• There are two types of gamelan orchestra: Javanese Gamelan and Balinese Gamelan.
• Gamelan is believed to be sacred and has supernatural powers.
• The major function of Gamelan is to accompany songs, dances, and shadow plays.
• The song is usually sung by the community at special events and tells the story of a loving mother and her child named Si Patokaan who wants to migrate to the big city to make a living and be successful in life.
• Pasidhen Peni Candra Rini is an accomplished composer, educator and one of the few female contemporary vocalists performing Sindhen—a female soloist style of singing found in Indonesian gamelan tradition.
• Si Patokan is a nickname which is usually used for North Sulawesi children from the North Sulawesi Province.
• Si Patokan is a favorite folk song in North Sulawesi.
• Saron-It normally has seven bronze bars placed on top of a resonating frame.
• Slenthem- It consists of a set of bronze keys comprising a single octave: there are six keys when playing the slendro scale and seven when playing the pelog.
• Kenong is a kind of gong and is placed on its side.
• The kempul is a set of pitched, hanging, knobbed gongs, often made of bronze, wood, and cords.
• The kempyang and ketuk are two instruments in the gamelan ensemble of Indonesia, generally played by the same player.
• A kendang or gendang is a two-headed drum.
• Saron peking- a smaller version of the saron.
• Bonang barung, and bonang panerus which sounds one octave higher.The bonang consists of a double range of bronze kettles, which are like small gongs with relatively high shoulders, and positioned with the open side downward on a grid-like underframe.