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    Wayang kulit shadow puppets from Indonesia are made from leather with buffalo horn handles and rods. Known as wayang, they are used in puppet theater performances accompanied by gamelan music. The dalang puppeteer manipulates the non-jointed puppets and tells stories. Common gamelan instruments include metallophones like gender and bonang, gongs, flutes, and fiddles. The music sets the mood and accompanies singing, dancing, entrances and exits in the theatrical performances.

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    Wayang kulit shadow puppets from Indonesia are made from leather with buffalo horn handles and rods. Known as wayang, they are used in puppet theater performances accompanied by gamelan music. The dalang puppeteer manipulates the non-jointed puppets and tells stories. Common gamelan instruments include metallophones like gender and bonang, gongs, flutes, and fiddles. The music sets the mood and accompanies singing, dancing, entrances and exits in the theatrical performances.

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    MUSIC

    Quarter 4 – Module 4b
    Traditional Asian Theater Music
    What is It

    Indonesian Theater
    Wayang kulit shadow puppets,
    prevalent in Java and Bali in Indonesia, and
    Kelantan and Terengganu in Malaysia are
    without a doubt the best known of the
    Indonesian wayang. Kulit means skin and
    refers to the leather construction of the
    puppets that are carefully chiseled with very
    fine tools and supported with carefully shaped
    buffalo horn handles and control rods.

    https://www.indoindians.com/history-of-wayang-indonesia/

    Wayang is an Indonesian and Malay


    word for theater. When the term is used to
    refer to kinds of puppet theater, sometimes
    the puppet itself is referred to as wayang.
    "Bayang", the Javanese word for shadow or
    imagination, also connotes "spirit."
    Performances of shadow puppet theater are
    accompanied by gamelan in Java, and by
    "gender wayang" in Bali.
    https://www.indoindians.com/history-of-wayang-indonesia/

    Dalang is a source of recreation, of humor and of popular philosophy (essential


    communication between the artist and the audience). Shadow play is an invention of man
    which reflects his experience of nature and of his thought. Puppets are projected by the lamp
    on a white screen.

    Non-jointed puppets were manipulated by the chief performer, the dalang, who told a
    story to the accompaniment of several instruments, including some that are part of the
    present-day gamelan ensemble.

    Wayang kulit was performed in royal court and widely performed in public on
    religious occasions so that knowledge of wayang became widespread among all classes in
    Java.
    Vocal and Instrumental Features

    tjelempung
    saron -
    – a zither
    xylophone
    of thirteen
    of heavy
    double
    bronze
    strings
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saron Collections.nmmusd.org/Gamelan/9879/Celempu

    gender -
    bronze
    .
    xylophone
    gambang
    with
    – wooden
    resonance
    xylophone
    chambers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambang
    beneath

    bonang - rebab –
    set of two-
    bronze stringed
    bowls fiddle
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebab

    gong and
    kempul – suling –
    hanging flute
    gongs
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suling
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempul

    kendang
    –
    bonang - horizontal
    set of drum beat
    bronze with the
    bowls fingers on
    both ends
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendang

    The preponderance of bronze instruments gives gamelan music a bright, lingering


    sound, ranging from the slow, majestic melodies of the Javanese gamelan to the clangorous
    vibrancy of the Balinese gamelan. Fiddle and flute add a delicate counterpoint to a four-
    square pattern of percussive melody.
    In addition to setting the mood or atmosphere of a play, music has two major
    dramatic functions in the theatre. It accompanies the singing/chanting and it
    accompanies stage actions including dance. The importance of each function varies
    from area to area and from theater form to theater form.

    If you have a smartphone, check out the link below to hear an example of
    musical instruments of Indonesia.

     Track 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgJpRf4uZX0

    The Dalang sings the mood songs (suluk) at regular intervals during
    performance; in a nine-hour wayangkulit, he may sing fifty or sixty. Nevertheless
    they are considered relatively unimportant except as mood pieces. The same
    generalized lyrics may be used in play after play. Suluk are never accompanied by
    the full gamelan ensemble. Often a single instrument accompanies the singer, never
    more than three or four. The major dramatic function of gamelan music is to
    accompany stage action. Entrances, exits, and fight scenes are executed in time to
    gamelan music.

    If you have a smartphone, check out the link below to hear an example of
    Wayang Kulit.

     Track 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFscEel8rcU
     Track 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfydro4X2t0

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