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 an angklung bamboo music instrument from West Java |
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| Classical • Kecak • Kecapi suling • Tembang sunda • Pop • Dangdut • Hip hop • Kroncong • Gambang kromong • Gambus • Jaipongan • Langgam jawa • Pop Batak • Pop Minang • Pop Sunda • Qasidah modern • Rock • Tapanuli ogong • Tembang jawa | |
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| Gamelan • Angklung Beleganjur • Degung • Gambang • Gong gede • Gong kebyar • Jegog • Joged bumbung • Salendro • Selunding • Semar pegulingan | |
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| Bali • Borneo • Java • Moluccan Islands • Papua • Sulawesi • Sumatra • Sunda | |
Gamelan Degung is a Sundanese musical ensemble that uses a subset of modified gamelan instruments with a particular mode of pelog scale.
Instruments
The instrumentation of gamelan degung is quite flexible. It may include:
- Bonang/kolènang: two rows of seven small bulbous gongs. It differs from its Javanese counterpart in that the rows are each placed on either side of the player.
- Saron/peking: a high-pitched bronze metallophone with fourteen keys.
- Panerus: another bronze metallophone, similar to the peking but pitched an octave lower.
- Jengglong: six bulbous gongs suspended from the same frame.
- Goong ageung: a large gong.
- A set of kendang, consisting of one large and two small double-sided drums.
- Suling degung: a four-holed bamboo flute.
- Gambang: a wooden xylophone.
In classical degung, the bonang serves as a conductor for the whole ensemble. Except in certain modern compositions, it is rarely absent.
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