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/ɡˈeɪmlæn/
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NOUN
- a traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs
How To Use gamelan In A Sentence
- Swooning, proggy mellotron sounds, crunchy electronic percussion, fat blobs of analogue synth, gamelan chimes and digital noise compete for centre stage in quickfire exchanges.
- She last saw the Prince on Monday when he visited the Royal College and played a gamelan, a traditional Indonesian instrument.
- As those of you who have seen gamelan dance can imagine, I was totally transfixed.
- He built several gamelans (Indonesian percussion orchestras) and composed extensively for them.
- The gamelan of Bali in particular attracted him, as it had Debussy and Ravel, with its sharp contrasts of rippling color and percussive blows.
- Debussy was among those who heard them, and began a tradition of transforming the gamelan into concert music.
- Eleven-year-old gamelan aficionado Morrison solemnly tapped out the steady beat on the kempli, a large kettledrum on which all the musicians in Balinese gamelan depend to keep time, especially when the rhythms get tricky.
- The skeleton rehearsal orchestra started up: a double-sided drum, a gamelan which is a sort of oriental xylophone and a big wooden wheel festooned with tinkling bells. Dance of the Gods: Interview with Cambodia's Princess Buppha Devi | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context
- I will never, for the rest of my life, be bored as long as there are gamelans and players around.
- In Legong Keraton, as in much Balinese dance, the movement is closely associated with the intricate rhythms produced by the gamelan ensemble.
