Music

A set of traditional Balinese gamelan Bali.Musik have in common with traditional music in many other areas in Indonesia, for example in the use of gamelan and various other percussion instruments. Nonetheless, there are peculiarities in the technique of playing and gubahannya, for example in the form of Kecak, a form of singing that is supposedly imitating the sounds of monkeys. Similarly, also played a variety of gamelan is unique, for example jegog gamelan, gamelan gong big, xylophone gamelan, gamelan and gamelan Semar selunding Pegulingan. There is also music Angklung played for cremation ceremonies and Bebonangan music played in various other ceremonies.

There is a modern form of traditional music of Bali, for example, Gamelan Gong Kebyar which is a dance music that developed in the Dutch colonial period and Joged tube which became popular in Bali since the 1950's era. Generally Bali music is a combination of a variety of metal percussion instruments (metallophones), gongs and wooden percussion (xylophone). Because of social relations, politics and culture, traditional music of Bali or Balinese gamelan games to influence or affect each other in the area surrounding culture, for example in the traditional music and traditional music community Banyuwangi Lombok.

Gamelan orchestra
Jegog
Genggong
Silat Bali

Balinese Dance


Balinese dance in general can be categorized into three groups, the guardian or sacred dance performances, dance performances bebali or for the ceremony and also for visitors and balih-balihan or the art of dance for the entertainment of visitors. [8]

Balinese dance experts I Made Bandem [9] at the beginning of the 1980s had classified the Balinese dances, among others who belong to the trustee for instance Berutuk, Sang Hyang Dedari, Rejang and Gede line, among others, is Gambuh bebali, Mask Pajegan and Wayang Wong, whereas balih-balihan among others is the Legong, Parwa, Arja, Prembon and Joged as well as many other modern dance choreography.

One of the dances are very popular for tourists is the Kecak Dance. Sometime in the 1930s, Wayan Limbak working with German painter Walter Spies to create Trance dance is based on tradition and part of the Ramayana story. Wayan Limbak popularizing this dance while traveling the world with his troupe of Balinese dancers.




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