MUSIC

• combination of music, visual arts and drama

  THEATER
• WAYANG KULIT — shadow puppets prevalent in

  Java and Bali
• Terengganu and Kelantan in Malaysia are the best known Indonesian Wayang
• KULIT — means skin and refers to the leather construction of the puppets
• WAYANG — Indonesian malay word for theater
• BAYANG — Javanese word for shadow or imagination
• GENDER WAYANG — accompanied by gamelan in Java
• DALANG — source of recreation, of humor and popular philosophy.
• SHADOW PLAY — invention of man which reflects his experience of nature and of his thought.
• NON JOINTED PUPPETS — manipulated by the chief performer, the dalang
• SARON — xylophone of heavy bronze
• TJELEMPUNG — zither of thirteen double strings
• GENDER — bronze xylophone with resonance chambers beneath
• GAMBANG — wooden xylophone
• BONANG — set of bronze bowls
• REBAB — two stringed fiddle
• GONG AND KEMPUL — hanging gong
• SULING — flute
• KENDANG — horizontal drum beat with the fingers on both end