There is an increasing amount of gamelan outside Indonesia.^{[citation needed]} There are even forms of gamelan that have originated outside Indonesia, such as American gamelan and Gamelan Pahang in Malaysia. Gamelan - Indonesian Embassy in Canberra A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesian origin typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings, and vocalists may also be included. ... American Gamelan is a style of gamelan based on Javanese gamelan instruments and music, but using primarily American made instruments and compositions. ...

Poland

The Polish band - Warsaw Gamelan Group - is the only band in this part of Europe that plays Indonesian music. WGG specialises in music from central Java.

Australia

Most of the gamelans in Australia are associated with universities or schools. One of the most famous is the gamelan Digul, made in the Digul prison camp in 1927 and brought to Australia during World War II. ^[1]

The Netherlands

The first gamelans outside of Indonesia were in the Netherlands, the country which had colonized the islands. Before World War II, the Javanese dancer Jodjana had a small gamelan group in the Netherlands, which accompanied his performances. He had to train Dutch musicians. Early during the war, the resistance fighter Bernard IJzerdraat Sr. was killed by the Germans. His son Bernard then left home and in Amsterdam heard a group of stranded javanese sailors play a gamelan at the Colonial Museum (later: Museum of the Tropics). He took lessons with them and soon started his own group with friends from his school in Haarlem. This became Babar Layar, the first serious gamelan group in the Netherlands. Babar Layar played in Yogyakarta style, after Bernard studied one full year in the kraton. They often accompanied Mas Pakun, a Yogyanese dancer who studied theology in Amsterdam. When Mantle Hood came to Amsterdam to write his dissertation on pathet, Bernard trained him to play gamelan. (Mas Pakun died a few years later in a tragic traffic accident after his return to Indonesia.) Mantle Hood later taught ethnomusicology in the U.S., and is regarded as the founding father of gamelan in that country. Bernard married a Sundanese wife and emigrated to Indonesia in 1954, where he became known as Suryabrata, working for RRI Jakarta and Universitas Nasional. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Coordinates: , Country Province Area (2006)  - Municipality 32. ... The Special Region of Yogyakarta (Indonesian: Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, or DIY), is a province of Indonesia on the island of Java. ... Kraton is one of the two most common names of Javanese palaces (the other being Istana, identical to Malay). ... Mantle Hood (? - July 31, 2005) was an American ethnomusicologist who specialized in tn studying gamelan music from Indonesia. ... The pathet (Javanese spelling; also patet) is an organizing concept in gamelan music. ... Ethnomusicology (from the Greek ethnos = nation and mousike = music), formerly comparative musicology, is the study of music in its cultural context, cultural musicology. ... Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) is the state radio network of Indonesia. ...

In 1971, the ethnomusicologist Ernst Heins invited K.R.M.T. Ronosuripto of the Mangkunagaran palace, Surakarta to Amsterdam. This gave a new impetus to the performance of gamelan and Javanese dance in the Netherlands. Together with Mr and Mrs Ronosuripto, the Amsterdam Gamelan group played many concerts and performances with Javanese dance and shadow puppetry (wayang kulit). Rien Baartmans, who as a child had been taking lessons from Bernard IJzerdraat, studied wayang and kendhang with Pak Ripto, which very much stimulated his own group Ngesthi Raras in Haarlem. Wayang is the Indonesian term for puppet, and the term refers to any and all of the numerous varieties of puppetry found in the archipelago. ... Kendang of Java Kendang (Javanese: Kendhang) is the primary drum used in gamelan. ...

In 1978 the new gamelan society Naga acquired a gamelan from Solo. This gamelan was used by several groups, performing traditional and modern music for gamelan. In the same year Elsje Plantema (a musician specializing in Javanese gamelan) and Rien Baartmans (dhalang) founded Raras Budaya, with the aim of performing wayang kulit in Dutch. Between 1980 and 1992, Raras Budaya performed numerous wayang plays. When Naga was dissolved in 1995, their gamelan was given to Raras Budaya, and is still used by gamelan groups conducted by Elsje Plantema and Jurrien Sligter (a musician who is interested in modern compositions for gamelan). Surakarta (its formal name; locally it is referred to as Solo) is an Indonesian city of approximately 500,000 people located in Central Java. ... A dalang manipulating puppets - The Indonesian Embassy in Australia The dalang (Javanese: dhalang) is the puppeteer in wayang kulit performance of Indonesia. ...

Today, several Javanese and Balinese gamelan groups are active in the Netherlands. Javanese style groups exist in Amsterdam, Delft, The Hague, Renkum and Arnhem. Balinese groups can be found in Amsterdam and The Hague. A Sundanese group exists in Leiden (Leyde).

United States

See also: List of gamelan ensembles in the United States

Gamelan music was introduced to the Western hemisphere at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. A Sundanese gamelan was imported as part of the Java Village exhibit and was acquired by the Field Museum of Natural History following the exposition. After the gamelan was restored in the late 1970s, it was used for instruction by a community arts organization, which gave its first performance in May of 1978. The organization incorporated in 1980 as Friends of the Gamelan and continues to perform with two central Javanese gamelan sets that it has acquired. There are more than 100 gamelan groups in the United States. ... One-third scale replica of Daniel Chester Frenchs Republic, which stood in the great basin at the exposition, Chicago, 2004 The Worlds Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago Worlds Fair), a Worlds Fair, was held in Chicago in 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago The Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, Illinois, USA, sits on Lake Shore Drive next to Lake Michigan, part of a scenic complex known as Museum Campus Chicago. ...

Many schools, universities and other institutions in North America own sets of gamelan instruments. These gamelans are typically played by mixed-gender groups of students, a practice that is rare in Indonesia for religious reasons. Among the earliest such groups were Wesleyan University [1] and UCLA [2]. Established institutional gamelan ensembles in the U.S. include Gamelan Nyai Saraswati at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gamelan Burat Wangi and Gamelan Kyai Dorodasih at California Institute of the Arts [3], Gamelan Galak Tika at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gamelan Lila Muni at Eastman School of Music, Gamelan Semara Santi at Swarthmore College, Gamelan Saraswati at University of Maryland, College Park, Gamelan Kembang Atangi at Loyola Marymount University, Gamelan Giri Kusuma at Pomona College, and the Javanese Court Gamelan, “Son of the Good Earth,” at Creighton University. Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. ... The University of California, Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ... Entrance to CalArts on McBean Parkway The California Institute of the Arts is commonly referred to as CalArts. ... “MIT” redirects here. ... The Eastman School of Music (also known more simply as The Eastman School, Eastman, or ESM) is a music conservatory located in the United States. ... Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,450 students. ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in the city of College Park, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., in the United States. ... Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic Jesuit university in Los Angeles, California, USA. The University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and one of five Marymount institutions of higher education. ... The Reba Taylor Stover Memorial Fountain in the Smith Campus Center courtyard at Pomona College during the inauguration of College President David Oxtoby Pomona College is a private residential liberal arts college located 33 miles (53 km) east of downtown Los Angeles in Claremont, California. ... Creighton University, founded in 1878, is a Jesuit, Catholic university located in Omaha, Nebraska. ...

In Canada one of the oldest gamelan ensembles is Kyai Madu Sari (Venerable Essence of Honey), donated by the Indonesian Government after the 1986 Expo in Vancouver, which resides since then at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. A gamelan gadhon, Alligator Joy, was commissioned from Pak Tentrem of Solo, Central Java and brought to Vancouver in 1990 and resides at the Western Front Artist Center. Both ensembes are regularly performed with by the Vancouver Community Gamelan [4].

There are also professional gamelan ensembles. Gamelan Son of Lion, a group that focuses on newly-composed music by both the composer-members of the group and invited composers from around the world. Gamelan Son of Lion is a new-music gamelan ensemble based in New York City. ...

Since 1979 a few gamelan ensembles have been organized as community arts organizations or clubs. The first Javanese community group was the Boston Village Gamelan [5] in Massachusetts, and the first Balinese community group was Gamelan Sekar Jaya in California. Other community Balinese gamelan ensembles are Gamelan Mitra Kusuma in Washington, D.C., Gamelan Dharma Swara at the Indonesian Consulate in New York City [6], Space City Gamelan in Houston, and Gamelan Tunas Mekar [7] in Denver. Gamelan Sari Raras is an active Javanese ensemble in Berkeley, California; the name was given to the group by Widiyanto (aka Midiyanto), and the instruments, brought to the U.S. from Java in 1971, are named Kyai Udan Mas, or Venerable Golden Rain. The Indonesian Embassy in Washington, DC, hosts another Javanese gamelan, as well as offering classes in Balinese gamelan and various styles of Indonesian dance. Gamelan X (formerly Onepeoplevoice) is based in Oakland. Gamelan Sekar Jaya is a Balinese gamelan ensemble located in the San Francisco Bay Area. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... Nickname: Location of Denver in Colorado Location of Colorado in the United States Coordinates: , Country State Founded [1] November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Government  - Type Strong Mayor/Weak Council  - Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area [1]  - City & County  154. ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ... Oakland redirects here. ...

Mexico

There are two gamelan ensembles from Central Java in Mexico City. The first one is in the Indonesia's Mexican embassy culture centre Loka Budhaya (Indra Swara, slendro) and the other one is in the Rumah Swara in Iztapalapa (Asep Mansah, pelog). There is a group called Indra Swara that play both gamelan ensembles in Mexico City. They play the "karawitan Jawa Tengah" style (Central Javanese gamelan). Indra Swara was founded in 2002 and they had give gamelan courses and auditions in D.F., Tlaxcala, Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Coahuila, Guerrero and Estado de México. It was founded by Fitra Ismu Kusumo (Indonesia), Esteban Gonzalez Alfonzo (México)and Shawn Callahan USA, and today have about twentysix members. Central Java (Indonesian: Jawa Tengah) is a province of Indonesia. ... Nickname: Motto: Capital en movimiento Location of Mexico City in south central Mexico Coordinates: , Country Federal entity Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded c. ... Slendro (called salendro by the Sundanese) is a pentatonic (five tone) scale, one of the two most common scales used in Indonesian gamelan music. ... Pelog is one of the two essential scales of gamelan music native to Bali and Java, in Indonesia. ... Karawitan is a general term for music and singing associated with the gamelan of Java. ... DF or df may stand for: df (Unix), a Unix command to report disk space usage by filesystem Danish Peoples Party (Dansk Folkeparti) Direction finding, a technique used to locate a radio transmitter Distrito Federal, e. ... For other uses, see Tlaxcala (disambiguation). ... Guanajuato is a state in the central highlands of Mexico. ... Zacatecas is one of the 31 constituent states of Mexico. ... Coahuila (formal name: Coahuila de Zaragoza) is one of Mexicos 31 component states. ... Guerrero is a state in the United Mexican States. ... The United Mexican States, or Mexico, is a federal republic, comprising 31 states. ... Mexico or, in Spanish, México, is: Mexico, a federal republic in North America Mexico City, that countrys capital city Mexican Federal District, the federal district containing that capital city Estado de México (State of Mexico), one of that republics 31 constituent states Mexico is also the...

United Kingdom

There are over fifty gamelans of various kinds in the United Kingdom, many of them based at colleges or community centres. University of York was the first British university to purchase a gamelan, named Kyai Sekar Patak; it is still played by students there. The oldest community Gamelan group in the UK is the Oxford Gamelan Society, which plays Kyai Madu Laras, donated to the University of Oxford's Bate Collection of Musical Instruments by the Indonesian ministry of Forestry in 1985. Other active groups exist at SOAS, Dartington College of Arts, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Durham, Kingston University and City University London, amongst others. A program of classes usually runs at the South Bank Centre, which also has a performing group of gamelan professionals, the South Bank Gamelan Players. In Cambridge, the Cambridge Gamelan Society (Gamelan Duta Laras) plays both traditional music and new compositions, and gives yearly dance performances as well as running introductory workshops. The Glasgow based Gamelan Naga Mas regularly gives performances and introductory workshops, teacher and special needs courses in Scotland. The London Symphony Orchestra[8] holds a Balinese gamelan at LSO St Luke's; this is used by schools, a community group, players of the orchestra and Balinese composers. This article is about the British university. ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments is a collection of historic musical instruments, mainly for Western classical music, from the medieval period onwards. ... This article is about the year. ... School of Oriental and African Studies The School of Oriental and African Studies (often abbreviated to SOAS) was founded in 1916 primarily as an institution to train British administrators for colonial postings, and has grown into one of the worlds foremost institutions for the study of Asia and Africa. ... The University of Aberdeen was founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland. ... Durham University is a university in England. ... Kingston University is a university in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, south-west London. ... City University could be City University of Hong Kong City University, London City University of New York City University, Washington or Dublin City University Oakland City University Oklahoma City University New Jersey City University Osaka City University This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages... The South Bank Centre is a complex of arts buildings located on the south bank of the River Thames beside the Hungerford Bridge. ... The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is one of the major orchestras of the United Kingdom. ...

Ireland

There is, at present, only one Gamelan in Ireland. It is located in the music department of University College Cork, in the "Seomra Gamelan." The Gamelan was custom made for UCC by a gong-smith in Java in 1994, and arrived in Ireland in 1995. There is sometimes concerts held in the college, performed by current students who continue their studies in Gamelan.

References

External links

• U.K. Gamelan Information
• Gamelan in Australia and New Zealand
• American Gamelan Institute
• Gamelan in France (with special section on 1889)
• Art of the States: gamelan orchestra works for gamelan orchestra by American composers

Groups

See also: List of gamelan ensembles in the United States for more links.

• Gamelan Naga Mas, Scotland
• A Javanese gamelan in Italy
• Giri Kedaton in Montreal, Quebec
• Langen Suka in Sydney, Australia
• Polish band Warsaw Gamelan Group
• Indra Swara, a javanese court gamelan in México
• Tirta Sinar, Balinese gamelan in Sydney,Australia