Word: gamelan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tomorrow at 8 P.M. The movie, which will be open to the public with no admission charge, will include scenes of native life and scenery in the Dutch East Indies Islands of Java, Sumatra, Niaf, the Celebes, and Bali. Featured also will be Balinese dance music and music by gamelan bands, with a dialogue by Andre Lavarre, and associate of Burton Holmes...
...Most sophisticated and euphonious of the Fahnestock records are those from Bali, reproducing the gamelan (gong) orchestras of the Balinese temples. Balinese gongsters, whose instruments range in timbre from trumpetlike brass gongs to tinkly wooden ones, play complicated rondo-like pieces, entirely without notation; a player remembers his notes by silently reciting a long poem. The Balinese scales correspond roughly to the Western; one of them has notes named ding, dong, deng, dung, dang. The Dutch Governor of Bali discovered a scale not previously identified, and the Fahnestocks recorded it in the singsong of an eight-year-old boy reciting...