Global Music Quiz #3

By Bubaran INDONESIA means: Red Flower GAMELAN Javanese bronze Gamelan; loud-playing style, pelog scale, gendhing (gamelan composition), cyclic repetition, coincidence; gong punctuation

By Ladrang INDONESIA means: Safe, secure Central Javanese GAMELAN Javanese iron and brass Gamelan; soft-playing style, pelog scale, opening on rebab, singers called pesindhen

By Playon INDONESIA Central Javanese GAMELAN For shadow puppetry (Wayang Kulit); “somewhat excited” category; all night performance; coincidence; introduction by knocking on puppet’s chest; begins in soft-playing style; gong punctuation

By Playon INDONESIA Central Javanese GAMELAN For shadow puppetry (Wayang Kulit); “somewhat excited” category; all night performance; coincidence; introduction by knocking on puppet’s chest; LOUD-PLAYING style; gong punctuation

By Beratha INDONESIA GAMELAN Gamelan gong kebyar; gendérs; flute, drum, reyong, extreme contrasts; cyclic and non-cyclic sections; Balinese

INDONESIA North Sumatra; traditional Batak; gong punctuation; kulcapi; keteng-keteng; mangkuk; ceremony for opening beauty salon and contacting ancestor-spirits

Means: Staying up all night INDONESIA Indonesian popular music; dangdut; popular social dancing; electric guitar;

INDONESIA Sundanese ethno-jazz fusion; title is combination of ‘shuffle’ or ecstasy song/dance in African American worship; ‘kendang’ for Sundanese drum; ‘gendhing’ for Gamelan musical piece; blend of Indonesian and western instruments; all tuned to pelog and slendro scales

Means: Distortion INDONESIA Indonesian rock music; alternative-rock about hyprocrisy and corruption; vocals, guitars, drum, bass. All western instruments

By Abing? means: Great Waves Washing the sands EAST ASIA Chinese pipa solo, Blind Abing;

Means: Weeding song EAST ASIA traditional Jiangsu folk-song; rice-weeding work song; Chinese folk song; shan’ge; Jiangsu Province; vocal cries and singing; free meter

Means: Releasing the horse into pasture EAST ASIA Traditional Yunnan folksong; vocal cries and singing; Chinese folk song; Yunnan Province; duple meter

Means: the silk and bamboo music of Jiangnan region East China EAST ASIA silk-stringed instruments and bamboo wind instruments (dizi); woodblock and clapper

Means: song of happiness Jiangnan sizhu EAST ASIA three variations; slow, moderate, and fast; Yangtze River region; wedding procession; dizi

Means: Seven inch lotus EAST ASIA Taiwan, Beiguan tune; vocal version