Balungan
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balungan-0-7111754
title:
Balungan
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The balungan is sometimes called the "core melody" or, "skeletal melodic outline," of a Javanese gamelan composition. This corresponds to the view that gamelan music is heterophonic: the balungan is then the melody which is being elaborated. "An abstraction of the inner melody felt by musicians," the balungan is, "the part most frequently notated by Javanese musicians, and the only one likely to be used in performance." The group of instruments which play the closest to the balungan are sometime
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Core melody of a gamelan composition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balungan
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2024-04-25T18:12:33Z
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