Gamelan

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85052946
- info:lc/authorities/sh85052946
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85052946#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Gamelan gegenggongan
- Gamelan genggong
- Gamelang
Broader Terms
- Orchestra--Indonesia
Narrower Terms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb12269790x
Sources
- found: New Grove dict. mus. instr. (Various ensembles or orchestras in Java, Bali, Madura and other areas where Javanese and Balinese have settled)
- found: New Grove dict. of mus. WWW site, Jan. 3, 2008: (The gamelan gegenggongan, used for dance and musical performance, consists of genggong (bamboo jew's harps), suling, kendang, guntang and ceng-ceng); under Jew's harp (In Bali, the gamelan genggong consists of about 15 boys playing string-operated instruments accompanied by a gong, a suling (flute) and a kendang (drum))
LC Classification
- ML1251.I53
- MT730
Example Notes
- Example under references from [Ensembles (Music); Ensembles (Musical compositions)]
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2009-03-10: revised

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