gamelan
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gamelan
1810–20; < Javanese, equivalent to gamel song accompanied by a gamelan + -an nominalizing suffix
Example Sentences
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In particular, they studied the 'bonang', an instrument from the Javanese gamelan built from a collection of small gongs.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2024
Their December concert will feature Balinese gamelan, and in May, film and chamber music will combine to explore the connection between mothers and their children.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
Western audiences would likely experience a learning curve with sonifications that employ, say, the sound of a Javanese gamelan, but a framework that contains such options can flex and adapt to the data’s needs.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2023
It’s one-and-a-half minutes of aggressive six-beat and four-beat propulsion: drums and gongs interwoven with electronic blips and throbs, like an ominous, time-warped gamelan.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
Where The Beades had plundered music hall, centuries-old Anglo-Celtic folk and the sounds of the 1960s electronic avant- garde, Steve Reich derived his inspirations from African drumming and Balinese gamelan music.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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