Gamelan, Indonesia's Global Cultural Heritage

Holiday Ayo - Gamelan is a traditional music game that must be preserved as a cultural heritage considering that gamelan has beautiful philosophical and aesthetic values.
Gamelan is an inseparable part of the life of the Javanese people so that the philosophy of life of the Javanese people is related to the art and culture of playing gamelan music which is also related to the development of their religion.
The main components that makeup gamelan musical instruments are bamboo, metal, and wood. Each instrument has its own function in a gamelan music performance, for example, the gong plays a role in closing a long musical rhythm and providing balance after the music has been decorated with the rhythm of the gending.
Not only the Javanese people, but the world also recognizes that gamelan is a traditional eastern musical instrument that can match the large western musical instruments.
Gamelan is a flexible musical instrument because it can also function for education. Many foreign people who come to Indonesia learn traditional Indonesian music, for example, gamelan to be developed into their own. So if we don't take care of this traditional music, it will slowly disappear from our country.








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