Angklung Musical Instrument

Angklung is a musical instrument made out of two bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame. The tubes are carved so that they have a resonant pitch when struck. The two tubes are tuned to octaves. The base of the frame is held with one hand while the other hand shakes the instrument rapidly from side to side. This causes a rapidly repeating note to sound. Thus each of three or more angklung performers in an ensemble will play just one note and together complete melodies are produced. Angklung is popular throughout Southeast Asia. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1200x800, 255 KB)Copyright © 2005 Sulfur A bamboo musical instrument called an angklung, which is found primarily in Indonesia. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1200x800, 255 KB)Copyright © 2005 Sulfur A bamboo musical instrument called an angklung, which is found primarily in Indonesia. ... In music, an octave (sometimes abbreviated 8ve or 8va) is the interval between one musical note and another with half or double the frequency. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...

Angklung got more international attention when in 1938 Daeng Soetigna, from Bandung - West Java, expanded the angklung notations not only to play traditional pélog or sléndro scales, but also diatonic scale. Since then, angklung is often played together with other western music instruments in an orchestra. One of the first well-known performances of angklung in an orchestra was during the Bandung Conference in 1955. A few years later, Udjo Ngalagena, a student of Daeng Soetigna, opened his "Saung Angklung" (Angklung's House) in 1966 as centre of its development. 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A view of Bandung from the northern highlands Bandung (formerly spelled: Bandoeng) is the provincial capital of West Java, Indonesia. ... Map showing West Java in Indonesia West Java (Jawa Barat) is a province of Indonesia, located on the island of Java. ... Pelog is one of the two essential scales of Gamelan music native to Bali and Java, in Indonesia. ... Slendro (called salendro by the Sundanese) is a pentatonic (five tone) scale, one of the two most common scales used in Indonesian gamelan music. ... In music, a scale is a set of musical notes that provides material for part or all of a musical work. ... In Music theory, the diatonic major scale (also known as the Guido scale), from the Greek diatonikos or to stretch out, is a fundamental building block of the European-influenced musical tradition. ... The Boston Pops orchestra performing on the Charles River Esplanade in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The Bandung Conference was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, organized by Egypt, Indonesia, Burma, Ceylon(Sri Lanka), India, and Pakistan. ...

In Bali, Indonesia, an ensemble of angklung is called gamelan angklung (anklung). The instruments are tuned to a 5-tone slendro scale, though actually most ensembles use a four-tone mode of the five-tone scale (an exception would be five-tone angklung from the north of Bali, as researched by Ruby Ornstein in the 1960s.) While the ensemble gets its name from the bamboo shakers, these days most compositions for Gamelan Angklung do not use them. An ensemble of mostly bronze metallophones is used instead. Topography Map showing Bali within Indonesia Sunset at Jimbaran Beach, Bali Young Balinese Dancers Rice terraces at entrance to Gunung Kawi Temple The Bali Starling lives only in Bali, as few as six may exist on the island Statue of Dewi Sri — Ubud, Bali Bali is an Indonesian island. ... Slendro (called salendro by the Sundanese) is a pentatonic (five tone) scale, one of the two most common scales used in Indonesian gamelan music. ... Generally speaking, a metallophone is any musical instrument consisting of tuned metal bars which are struck to make sound, usually with a mallet. ...

Further reading

• Balinese Music (1991) by Michael Tenzer Periplus/University of Washington Press .
• Can You Shake It? The Angklung of Southeast Asia by Prof. Kuo-Huang Han, School of Music, Northern Illinois University

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External links

• Gamelan Sekar Jaya (excerpt about angklung from Michael Tenzer's book Balinese Music)
• Musical sample composed by I Nyoman Windha

• Saung Angklung Udjo
• Angklung Group in Bandung, Indonesia
• Angklung Group in Hamburg, Germany
• Kolintang (Indonesian commercial site selling Sundanese agklung)
• Jingle Bells on Angklung played by 5 children on their Graduation Day from Kindergarten