MUSI 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Wayang, Mashriq, Gamelan
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String stretches where the bottom of the string would be because theres no string. Not as much now because tourists have become a factor- catering to tourist audiences. Specifically for the shadow plays and thats it. Before the tourist industry came to bali, the shadow theatre would go all night long. As long as its dark they"re doing shadow plays- sometimes up to 10 hours with no intermissions. Gender instrument- keyboard instruments- like a xylophone with metal keys. No improvisation in the form of this music. Composed but not written down- from generation to generation the pieces are passed down from teachers to students. Music is difficult to play because each note has to be dampened after it is played while playing the. In the stories, you"d only have the refined characters but in order to respect the tradition, the dialogue thats spoken by the main characters has to stay in the original language that it was written in.
