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Gamelan

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Gamelan is the traditional ensemble music of Java and Bali in Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments. [1]

189 relations: A Rose in the Wind, Adrian Belew, Akira (1988 film), Alexandre Desplat, American gamelan, Andrew Schultz, Anggun, Anime, Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Avant-garde, BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, Bali, Balinese language, Balinese people, Balungan, Bamboo musical instruments, Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series), Béla Bartók, Beat (acoustics), Beat (King Crimson album), Beat (music), Bedhaya, Benjamin Britten, Borobudur, Bossa nova, Bronisław Kaper, Catholic Church in Indonesia, Cengkok, Central Java, Cirebon, Classical music, Claude Debussy, Clef, Colin McPhee, Colotomy, Conservatoire de Paris, Cul de Sac (band), Culture of Indonesia, Dalang (puppeteer), Dance in Indonesia, Daniel James Wolf, Deep Forest, Dennis Murphy (musician), Discipline (King Crimson album), Don Cherry (trumpeter), Drain (band), Erik Satie, Evan Ziporyn, Exposition Universelle (1889), ..., Filipinos, Folk music, Francis Poulenc, Gamelan, Gamelan degung, Gamelan gong kebyar, Gamelan notation, Gamelan Sekaten, Gatra (music), Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Gendèr, Girl with a Pearl Earring (film), Gnossiennes, Gong ageng, Greater India, Guitar Craft, György Ligeti, Hamengkubuwono, Harry Partch, Haruka Shimotsuki, Henry Brant, His Name Is Alive, I Nyoman Windha, In open court, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Indra Swara, Interval (music), Irama, J-pop, Jaap Kunst, James Newton Howard, Japan, Java, Javanese calendar, Javanese language, Javanese people, Javanese poetry, Jazz fusion, Jody Diamond, John Cage, John Fahey (musician), Kacapi suling, Kecak, Kemanak, Kendang, Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat, Kulintang, Kuta, Legong (film), Loop (music), Loren Nerell, Lou Harrison, Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, Macha (band), Majapahit, Malay Gamelan, Mawlid, Medang Kamulan, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Metallophone, Michael Tenzer, Microtonal music, Mike Oldfield, Minor scale, Misha Omar, Moodswinger, Mount Lawu, Mouse on Mars, Muhammad, Munggang, Museo Nacional de las Culturas, Music of India, Music of Indonesia, Musical ensemble, Musical note, Musical tuning, Neo Ranga, Octave, Olivier Messiaen, Oral tradition, Panerusan, Pasindhèn, Pelog, Pendopo, Pentatonic scale, Percussion instrument, Peter Sculthorpe, Philip Glass, Phrygian mode, Pierre Boulez, Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam, Prepared piano, Radio Republik Indonesia, Rebab, Regular Show, Robert Fripp, Ross Edwards (composer), Ryuichi Sakamoto, SambaSunda, Sampling (music), Sanskrit, Saron (instrument), Secret of Mana, Shaka era, Sinta Wullur, Slendro, Snow on the Sahara, Snow on the Sahara (song), Sofa Surfers, Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Youth, Steve Reich, String instrument, Sumarsam, Sun City Girls, Sundanese people, Surakarta, Synth-pop, Technodelic, Teriyaki Boyz, The Golden Compass (film), The Japan Times, The Raincoats, The Residents, Three of a Perfect Pair, Udan Mas, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Wayang, Wayang kulit, Whole tone scale, World's fair, Xiu Xiu, Xylophone, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Yogyakarta, Yuri Landman, 23 Skidoo (band), 3rd bridge. Expand index (139 more) »

A Rose in the Wind

"A Rose in the Wind" is the second single from Anggun's international debut album, Snow on the Sahara in 1998.

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Adrian Belew

Adrian Belew (born Robert Steven Belew, December 23, 1949) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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Akira (1988 film)

Akira (Japanese: アキラ Hepburn: Akira) is a 1988 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's manga of the same name.

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Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (born 23 August 1961) is a French-Greek film composer.

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American gamelan

American gamelan could refer to both instruments and music; the term has been used to refer to gamelan-style instruments built by Americans, as well as to music written by American composers to be played on gamelan instruments.

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Andrew Schultz

Andrew Schultz (born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 18 August 1960) is an acclaimed Australian classical composer.

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Anggun

Anggun Cipta Sasmi (born 29 April 1974) is an Indonesian and French-naturalised singer-songwriter.

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Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

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Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia

Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia, released in Japan as is a role-playing video game developed by Gust Corporation for the PlayStation 2 and originally published by Banpresto in 2006.

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Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Atlantis: The Lost Empire is a 2001 American animated science fantasy action adventure film created by Walt Disney Feature Animation—the first science fiction film in Disney's animated features canon and the 41st overall.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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BAFTA Award for Best Film Music

The Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music (or BAFTA Award for Best Film Music) is an annual award given by British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

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Bali

Bali (Balinese:, Indonesian: Pulau Bali, Provinsi Bali) is an island and province of Indonesia with the biggest Hindu population.

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Balinese language

Balinese, or simply Bali, is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by 3.3 million people on the Indonesian island of Bali as well as northern Nusa Penida, western Lombok and eastern Java.

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Balinese people

The Balinese (Indonesian: Suku Bali) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Bali.

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Balungan

The balungan (skeleton,Lindsay (1992), p.48.) is sometimes called the "core melody" or, "skeletal melodic outline," of a Javanese gamelan composition.

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Bamboo musical instruments

Bamboos natural hollow form makes it an obvious choice for many musical instruments, most commonly flutes.

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Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)

Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the ''Battlestar Galactica'' franchise.

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Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and an ethnomusicologist.

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Beat (acoustics)

In acoustics, a beat is an interference pattern between two sounds of slightly different frequencies, perceived as a periodic variation in volume whose rate is the difference of the two frequencies.

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Beat (King Crimson album)

Beat is the ninth studio album by the British rock band King Crimson, released in 1982 by record label E.G. It is the first King Crimson studio album to feature a band line-up identical to that of their previous album.

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Beat (music)

In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).

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Bedhaya

The bedhaya (also written as bedoyo, beḍaya, and various other transliterations) is a sacred ritualized dance of Java, Indonesia, associated with the royal palaces of Yogyakarta and Surakarta.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Borobudur

Borobudur, or Barabudur (Candi Borobudur, Candhi Barabudhur) is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, not far from the town of Muntilan, in Central Java, Indonesia.

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Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a genre of Brazilian music, which was developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s and is today one of the best-known Brazilian music genres abroad.

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Bronisław Kaper

Bronisław Kaper (February 5, 1902April 26, 1983) was a Polish film composer who scored films and musical theater in Germany, France, and the USA.

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Catholic Church in Indonesia

The Catholic Church in Indonesia (Gereja Katolik di Indonesia) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome.

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Cengkok

Céngkok (old orthography: chengkok) are patterns played by the elaborating instruments in the Javanese gamelan.

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Central Java

Central Java (Jawa Tengah, abbreviated as Jateng) is a province of Indonesia.

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Cirebon

Cirebon (formerly referred to as Cheribon in English) is a port city on the north coast of the Indonesian island of Java.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.

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Clef

A clef (from French: clef "key") is a musical symbol used to indicate the pitch of written notes.

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Colin McPhee

Colin Carhart McPhee (March 15, 1900 – January 7, 1964) was a Canadian composer and musicologist.

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Colotomy

Colotomy is a description of the rhythmic and metric patterns of gamelan music.

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Conservatoire de Paris

The Conservatoire de Paris (English: Paris Conservatory) is a college of music and dance founded in 1795 associated with PSL Research University.

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Cul de Sac (band)

Cul de Sac are a rock group formed in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts and led by guitarist Glenn Jones.

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Culture of Indonesia

The culture of Indonesia has been shaped by long interaction between original indigenous customs and multiple foreign influences.

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Dalang (puppeteer)

The dhalang or dalang (dhalang; Indonesian and Malay: dalang) is the puppeteer in an Indonesian wayang performance.

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Dance in Indonesia

Dance in Indonesia (Tarian Indonesia) reflects the country's diversity of ethnicities and cultures.

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Daniel James Wolf

Daniel James Wolf (born September 13, 1961 in Upland, California) is an American composer.

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Deep Forest

Deep Forest is a musical group originally consisting of two French musicians, Michel Sanchez and Éric Mouquet.

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Dennis Murphy (musician)

Dennis Murphy (January 19, 1934 – November 29, 2010) was a composer, musician, instrument maker, artist, and playwright.

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Discipline (King Crimson album)

Discipline is the eighth studio album by English progressive rock band King Crimson, released on 22 September 1981 by E.G. Records in the United Kingdom and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

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Don Cherry (trumpeter)

Donald Eugene Cherry (November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Drain (band)

Drain were an American noise rock band formed in Austin, Texas by King Coffey in 1992.

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Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.

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Evan Ziporyn

Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago, Illinois, December 14, 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist music with a cross-cultural orientation, drawing equally from classical music, avant-garde, various world music traditions, and jazz.

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Exposition Universelle (1889)

The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 6 May to 31 October 1889.

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Filipinos

Filipinos (Mga Pilipino) are the people who are native to, or identified with the country of the Philippines.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist.

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Gamelan

Gamelan is the traditional ensemble music of Java and Bali in Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.

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Gamelan degung

Gamelan Degung is a Sundanese musical ensemble that uses a subset of modified gamelan instruments with a particular mode of pelog scale.

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Gamelan gong kebyar

Gamelan gong kebyar is a style or genre of Balinese gamelan music.

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Gamelan notation

Notation plays a relatively minor role in the oral traditions of Indonesian gamelan but, in Java and Bali, several systems of gamelan notation were devised beginning at the end of the 19th century, initially for archival purposes.

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Gamelan Sekaten

The Gamelan Sekaten (or Sekati) is a ceremonial gamelan (musical ensemble) from central Java, Indonesia, played during the annual Sekaten festival.

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Gatra (music)

A gatra ("embryo" or "semantic unit") is a unit of melody in Javanese gamelan music, analogous to a measure in Western music.

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Geinoh Yamashirogumi

is a Japanese musical collective founded on January 19, 1974 by Tsutomu Ōhashi, consisting of hundreds of people from all walks of life: journalists, doctors, engineers, students, businessmen, etc.

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Gendèr

A gendèr is a type of metallophone used in Balinese and Javanese gamelan music.

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Girl with a Pearl Earring (film)

Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 romantic drama film directed by Peter Webber.

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Gnossiennes

The Gnossiennes are several piano compositions written by the French composer Erik Satie in the late 19th century.

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Gong ageng

The gong ageng (or gong gedhe in Ngoko Javanese, means large gong) is a musical instrument.

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Greater India

The term Greater India is most commonly used to encompass the historical and geographic extent of all political entities of the Indian subcontinent, and the regions which are culturally linked to India or received significant Indian cultural influence.

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Guitar Craft

Guitar Craft (GC) was a series of guitar and personal-development classes, founded and often presented by Robert Fripp, who is best known for his work with the rock band King Crimson.

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György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti (Ligeti György Sándor,; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music.

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Hamengkubuwono

Hamengkubuwono (also spelt Hamengkubuwana and in Dutch transcription "Hamengkoeboewono") is the current ruling royal house of the Yogyakarta Sultanate in the Yogyakarta Special Region of Indonesia.

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Harry Partch

Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments.

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Haruka Shimotsuki

is a Japanese singer and dōjin music composer known for her vocal themes in the Atelier Iris and Ar tonelico series.

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Henry Brant

Henry Dreyfuss Brant (September 15, 1913 – April 26, 2008) was a Canadian-born American composer.

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His Name Is Alive

His Name Is Alive is an American experimental rock band/project from Livonia, Michigan, United States.

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I Nyoman Windha

I Nyoman Windha is one of the leading musicians and contemporary composers of Balinese gamelan music.

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In open court

In open court is a legal term in the United States defined by the appearance by a party or their attorney in a public court session such as during a trial.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Indra Swara

Indra Swara(Gamelan Indra Swara) is a group promoting Indonesian art and culture in Mexico.

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Interval (music)

In music theory, an interval is the difference between two pitches.

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Irama

"Irama" is the term used for tempo in gamelan.

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J-pop

J-pop (often stylized as J-POP; ジェイポップ jeipoppu; an abbreviation for Japanese pop), natively also known simply as, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.

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Jaap Kunst

Jaap (or Jakob) Kunst (12 August 1891 in Groningen – 7 December 1960 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch ethnomusicologist, particularly associated with the study of gamelan music of Indonesia.

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James Newton Howard

James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer, conductor, and music producer.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Java

Java (Indonesian: Jawa; Javanese: ꦗꦮ; Sundanese) is an island of Indonesia.

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Javanese calendar

The Javanese calendar (Pananggalan Jawa) is the calendar of the Javanese people.

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Javanese language

Javanese (colloquially known as) is the language of the Javanese people from the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, in Indonesia.

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Javanese people

The Javanese (Ngoko Javanese:, Madya Javanese:,See: Javanese language: Politeness Krama Javanese:, Ngoko Gêdrìk: wòng Jåwå, Madya Gêdrìk: tiyang Jawi, Krama Gêdrìk: priyantun Jawi, Indonesian: suku Jawa) are an ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Java.

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Javanese poetry

Javanese poetry (poetry in the Javanese or especially the Kawi language; Low Javanese: tembang; High Javanese: sekar) is traditionally recited in song form.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jody Diamond

Jody Diamond (born Pasadena, California, April 23, 1953) is an American composer, performer, writer, publisher, editor, and educator.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.

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John Fahey (musician)

John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument.

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Kacapi suling

Kacapi suling is a form of Sundanese music from West Java.

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Kecak

Kecak (pronounced ("Kechak"), alternate spellings: Kechak and Ketjak), known in Indonesian as Tari Kecak is a form of Balinese dance and music drama that was developed in the 1930s in Bali, Indonesia.

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Kemanak

Kemanak is a banana-shaped idiophone used in Javanese gamelan, made of bronze.

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Kendang

Kendhang (Javanese: Kendhang, Malay: Gendang, Tausug/Bajau Maranao: Gandang) is a two-headed drum used by peoples from Maritime Southeast Asia.

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Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat

The Kraton of Yogyakarta (Bahasa Indonesia: Keraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat, Javanese:ꦏꦿꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦔꦪꦺꦴꦒꦾꦏꦂꦠꦲꦢꦶꦤꦶꦔꦿꦠ꧀) is a palace complex located in the city of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.

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Kulintang

Kulintang is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums.

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Kuta

Kuta is administratively a district (kecamatan) and subdistrict/village (kelurahan) in southern Bali, Indonesia.

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Legong (film)

Legong: Dance of the Virgins is a 1935 film, one of the last feature films shot using the two-color Technicolor process, and one of the last silent films shot in Hollywood.

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Loop (music)

In electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material.

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Loren Nerell

Loren Nerell (born November 30, 1960) is an American composer and performer of ambient American music and Balinese gamelan.

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Lou Harrison

Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer.

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Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray

Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (2 February 1840 – 4 July 1910) was a French Breton composer, pianist, and professor of music history/theory at the Conservatoire de Paris as well as a Prix de Rome laureate.

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Macha (band)

Macha was an experimental post-rock band from Athens, Georgia composed of brothers Josh McKay (founder/singer/multi-instrumentalist), Mischo McKay (drums/percussion), Kai Reidl (multi-instrumentalist) and Wes Martin (multi-instrumentalist).

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Majapahit

The Majapahit Empire (Javanese: ꦏꦫꦠꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦩꦗꦥꦲꦶꦠ꧀ Karaton Majapahit, Kerajaan Majapahit) was a thalassocracy in Southeast Asia, based on the island of Java (part of modern-day Indonesia), that existed from 1293 to circa 1500.

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Malay Gamelan

The Malay gamelan which exists today in Malaysia is basically from the courts of Riau-Lingga, Pahang and Terengganu.

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Mawlid

Mawlid or Mawlid al-Nabi al-Sharif (مَولِد النَّبِي mawlidu n-nabiyyi, "Birth of the Prophet", sometimes simply called in colloquial Arabic مولد mawlid, mevlid, mevlit, mulud among other vernacular pronunciations; sometimes ميلاد mīlād) is the observance of the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad which is commemorated in Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar.

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Medang Kamulan

Medang Kamulan was a semi-mythological kingdom that believed to be once established somewhere in Central Java according to Javanese mythology.

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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Merry Christmas, Mr.

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Metallophone

A metallophone is any musical instrument consisting of tuned metal bars which are struck to make sound, usually with a mallet.

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Michael Tenzer

Michael Tenzer (born 1957) is a composer, performer, and music educator and scholar.

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Microtonal music

Microtonal music or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".

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Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English musician and composer.

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Minor scale

In music theory, the term minor scale refers to three scale formations – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending) – rather than just one as with the major scale.

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Misha Omar

Samiha @ Aisah Binti Omar (born 6 January 1982), commonly known as Misha, is a Malaysian singer and actress.

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Moodswinger

The Moodswinger is a twelve-string electric zither with an additional third bridge designed by Yuri Landman.

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Mount Lawu

Mount Lawu, or Gunung Lawu, is a massive compound stratovolcano straddling the border between East Java and Central Java, Indonesia.

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Mouse on Mars

Mouse on Mars are an electronic music duo formed in Germany in 1993, consisting of Jan St.

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Muhammad

MuhammadFull name: Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāšim (ابو القاسم محمد ابن عبد الله ابن عبد المطلب ابن هاشم, lit: Father of Qasim Muhammad son of Abd Allah son of Abdul-Muttalib son of Hashim) (مُحمّد;;Classical Arabic pronunciation Latinized as Mahometus c. 570 CE – 8 June 632 CE)Elizabeth Goldman (1995), p. 63, gives 8 June 632 CE, the dominant Islamic tradition.

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Munggang

Gamelan Munggang are considered among the most ancient gamelans of the kraton (courts) of central Java.

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Museo Nacional de las Culturas

The Museo Nacional de las Culturas (MNC; National Museum of Cultures) is a national museum in Mexico City dedicated to education about the world's cultures, both past and present.

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Music of India

The music of India includes multiple varieties of classical music, folk music, filmi, Indian rock and Indian pop.

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Music of Indonesia

The music of Indonesia demonstrates its cultural diversity, the local musical creativity, as well as subsequent foreign musical influences that shaped contemporary music scenes of Indonesia.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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Musical note

In music, a note is the pitch and duration of a sound, and also its representation in musical notation (♪, ♩).

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Musical tuning

In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.

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Neo Ranga

is an anime television series created by Studio Pierrot,, sur Toutelatele.com.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.

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Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century.

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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication where in knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

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Panerusan

The panerusan instruments or elaborating instruments are one of the divisions of instruments used in the gamelan.

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Pasindhèn

A pasindhèn (informally sindhèn; also called waranggana) is a female solo singer who sings with a gamelan.

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Pelog

Pelog is one of the two essential scales of gamelan music native to Bali and Java, in Indonesia.

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Pendopo

A pendopo or pendapa is a fundamental element of Javanese architecture; a large pavilion-like structure built on columns.

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Pentatonic scale

A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the more familiar heptatonic scale that has seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Peter Sculthorpe

Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE (29 April 1929 – 8 August 2014) was an Australian composer.

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Philip Glass

Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer.

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Phrygian mode

The Phrygian mode (pronounced) can refer to three different musical modes: the ancient Greek tonos or harmonia sometimes called Phrygian, formed on a particular set of octave species or scales; the Medieval Phrygian mode, and the modern conception of the Phrygian mode as a diatonic scale, based on the latter.

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Pierre Boulez

Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of institutions.

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Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam

Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam, also known as Pontianak Scent of the Tuber Rose or Fragrant Night Vampire, is a 2004 Malaysian horror film directed and written by Shuhaimi Baba.

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Prepared piano

A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sound altered by placing objects (called preparations) on or between the strings.

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Radio Republik Indonesia

Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) is the state radio network of Indonesia.

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Rebab

The rebab (ربابة, rabāb, variously spelled rebap, rabab, rebeb, rababa and rabeba, also known as جوزه jawza or joza in Iraq) is a type of a bowed string instrument so named no later than the 8th century and spread via Islamic trading routes over much of North Africa, the Middle East, parts of Europe, and the Far East.

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Regular Show

Regular Show (also known as Regular Show in Space during its eighth season) is an American animated television sitcom created by J. G. Quintel for Cartoon Network that aired from September 6, 2010, to January 16, 2017.

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Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer.

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Ross Edwards (composer)

Ross Edwards AM (born 23 December 1943) is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto

() is a Japanese musician, singer, composer, record producer, activist, writer, actor and dancer, based in Tokyo and New York.

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SambaSunda

SambaSunda (originally known as CBMW) is an Indonesian ethnic music fusion group based in Bandung, the capital and cultural centre of Sundanese culture, West Java, Indonesia.

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Saron (instrument)

The saron is a musical instrument of Indonesia, which is used in the gamelan.

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Secret of Mana

Secret of Mana, originally released in Japan as Seiken Densetsu 2, is a 1993 action role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Shaka era

The Shaka era (IAST: Śaka era) is a historical calendar era, corresponding to Julian year 78.

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Sinta Wullur

Sinta Wullur (born 16 November 1958) is an Indonesian-Dutch gamelan musician and composer.

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Slendro

Slendro (called salendro by the Sundanese) is a pentatonic scale, the older of the two most common scales (laras) used in Indonesian gamelan music, the other being pélog.

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Snow on the Sahara

Snow on the Sahara (English version) / Au nom de la lune (French version) is the first international studio album by Indonesian singer Anggun.

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Snow on the Sahara (song)

"Snow on the Sahara" is a song by Indonesian singer Anggun from her first international studio album Snow on the Sahara.

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Sofa Surfers

Sofa Surfers is an Austrian band that plays a mixture of rock and electronic music floating between trip hop, dub and acid jazz.

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Sonic Unleashed

Sonic Unleashed is a 2008 platform video game published by Sega.

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Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981.

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Steve Reich

Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.

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String instrument

String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Sumarsam

Sumarsam (born 27 July 1944) is a Javanese musician and scholar of the gamelan.

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Sun City Girls

The Sun City Girls were an American experimental rock band, formed in 1979 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Sundanese people

The Sundanese (Sundanese:, Urang Sunda) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the western part of the Indonesian island of Java.

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Surakarta

Surakarta (ꦯꦸꦫꦏꦂꦠ, often called Solo or less common spelling Sala) is a city in Central Java.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Technodelic

Technodelic is the fifth studio album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1981.

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Teriyaki Boyz

Teriyaki Boyz is a Japanese hip hop and pop group from Yokohama, Japan.

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The Golden Compass (film)

The Golden Compass is a 2007 fantasy adventure film based on Northern Lights, the first novel in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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The Raincoats

The Raincoats are a British post-punk and experimental rock band.

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The Residents

The Residents are an American art collective best known for avant-garde music and multimedia works.

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Three of a Perfect Pair

Three of a Perfect Pair is the tenth studio album by English band King Crimson, released in March 1984 by record label E.G.

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Udan Mas

Udan Mas (sometimes written Hudan Mas, the name means "Golden Rain") is a composition for gamelan which is popular in Central Java, especially Yogyakarta.

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Walt Disney Animation Studios

Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), also referred to as Disney Animation, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, is an American animation studio that creates animated feature films, short films, and television specials for The Walt Disney Company.

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Wayang

Wayang (Krama Javanese: Ringgit, "Shadow"), also known as Wajang, is a form of puppet theatre art found in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, wherein a dramatic story is told through shadows thrown by puppets and sometimes combined with human characters.

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Wayang kulit

Wayang kulit is a traditional performing arts of puppet-shadow play found in the culture of Java, Bali, and Lombok, Indonesia and Kelantan, Malaysia.

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Whole tone scale

In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbours by the interval of a whole tone.

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World's fair

A world's fair, world fair, world expo, universal exposition, or international exposition (sometimes expo or Expo for short) is a large international exhibition designed to showcase achievements of nations.

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Xiu Xiu

Xiu Xiu is an American experimental band, formed in 2002 by singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart in San Jose, California.

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Xylophone

The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον—xylon, "wood" + φωνή—phōnē, "sound, voice", meaning "wooden sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.

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Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).

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Yogyakarta

Yogyakarta (also Jogja or Jogjakarta; ꦛꦔꦪꦺꦴꦒꦾꦏꦂꦠ; formerly Dutch: Djokjakarta/Djocjakarta or Djokja) is a city on the island of Java in Indonesia.

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Yuri Landman

Yuri Landman (born February 1, 1973) is a Dutch inventor of musical instruments and musician who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a number of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Jad Fair of Half Japanese, Liam Finn, and Laura-Mary Carter.

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23 Skidoo (band)

23 Skidoo are a British band playing a fusion of industrial, post-punk, funk, and world music.

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3rd bridge

The 3rd bridge is an extended playing technique used on the electric guitar and other string instruments that allows a musician to produce distinctive timbres and overtones that are unavailable on a conventional string instrument with two bridges (a nut and a bridge).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan

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