MUS 185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Kecak, Sung Poetry, Javanese Dance
13 Oct 2015
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Bali is indonesia"s most famous island and is known worldwide for its art, music, and dance. Music and dance are believed beneficial for the village. The arts, and particularly music, accompany the stages of the human cycle of life. Accompanied with music at death to the cremation grounds with it. Purified and revived through annual festivals that reconnect the past with the present through prescribed rites, offerings, and performing arts. Orchestral and performed on gamelan ensembles (bronze, sometimes other materials) Popular music of bali = bali pop . Kreasi baleganjur demonstrates how successive generations of musicians develop new styles from indigenous material in response to social and aesthetic changes. Traditional music constantly undergoes renewal, change, transformation, and variation both in villages and towns in the influential conservatories. The treatment material is altered repeatedly to suit a particular group or to reflect an emerging aesthetic.
