The U-M Gamelan Ensemble

The Venerable Lake of Honey

by James M. Manheim

posted 2/1/2004

Gamelan music is the classical music of Indonesia, a tradition centuries old. The gamelan is an orchestra consisting mostly of tuned bronze kettles and gongs of different sizes; with several dozen players, it is one of the world's largest musical ensembles. The music is structured into cycles, and cycles within cycles, and cycles within cycles within

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