Indonesian Gamelan

Indonesia is a country in...

• South East Asia

• Europe

• South America

• Africa

Gamelan instruments are mainly:

• String

• Percussion

• Woodwind

• Brass

Texture refers to

• The different layers

• The lords and softs

• The fast and slow

• The high and low

The textures created by Gamelan are usually:

• Polyphonic and Heterophonic

• Monophonic and Polyphonic

• Homophonic and Heterophonic

• Polyrhythmic and Heterophonic

Polyphonic means:

• Melodies which interlock and overlap

• Many rhythms played at the same time

• A melody and accompaniment

• Everyone playing the same thing

The instruments of the Gamelan fall into how many groups?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Indonesian Gamelan is the traditional music of which islands?

• Java and Lombok

• Bali and Java

• Bali and Flores

• Flores and Komodo

A pentatonic scale consists of how many notes?

• 3

• 5

• 7

• 11

A heptatonic scale consists of how many notes?

• 3

• 5

• 7

• 11

Which Gamelan scale has 5 notes?

• Slendro

• Pelog