Balinese Music

Traditional Music of Bali

The diversity of the arts in Bali is rich, one of them is Balinese traditional music. There are several variants of the musical instruments used by the people of Bali, such as Gamelan, Jegog, and Genggong.
Balinese traditional music has in common with the traditional music of various other races in Indonesia, for example, the way they play the gamelan also various other percussion instruments in general. Still, there are several ways that characterize the Balinese in improvising techniques and playing a musical instrument, exam in the form of Kecak, the Balinese chant supposedly the story as imitating the sound of monkeys.
Similarly, a variety of gamelan played also has a unique, such as gamelan jegog, big gong gamelan, gamelan xylophone, Gamelan Gamelan Semar selunding and Pegulingan. There is also identical to Angklung music Sundanese ethnic music, played for the cremation ceremony and Bebonangan music played in various other ceremonies.
There are also various forms of modernization of traditional Balinese music, for example Gamelan Gong Kebyar which is dance music that developed in the Dutch colonial period and Joged tube which became popular in Bali since the era of the 1950s. In general Balinese music is a combination of a variety of percussion instruments metal (metallophone), gongs and wooden percussion (xylophone). Because of the relationship of social, political and cultural, Balinese traditional music or games Balinese gamelan influence or affect each other culture in the surrounding areas, for example in the traditional music of Banyuwangi and music Lombok traditional society.

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