Faculty of Music

740-164 Gamelan

Play indonesian music for your breadth study! The Gamelan Ensemble rehearses on the magnificent bronze slendro-pelog gamelan from central Java, Indonesia in the Faculty of Music. Students learn to play all the instruments of the gamelan – gongs, drums and metal xylophones and tuned pots. Pieces learned include traditional and newly composed works for gamelan.

No music reading skills are required. Students work to an end-of year performance including a short excerpt from a shadow puppet play.

The gamelan rehearses every Tuesday, 12.00-2.00 pm, in the Gamelan Room at 210 Berkeley Street.

More information for this subject is available in the Course and Subject Handbook.

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