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Balinese Music Compared to the Composer: Bela Bartok. By: Samantha Tagle . Population: 3,151,000 Highest Elevation in Bali is Mount Agung which is 3,000 meters above sea level. Bali is a very fertile for agricultural crop region because of its rainfall . . Geographical Influences . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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By: Samantha Tagle
BALINESE MUSIC COMPARED TO THE COMPOSER: BELA BARTOK
Population: 3,151,000 Highest Elevation in Bali is Mount Agung which is 3,000
meters above sea level. Bali is a very fertile for agricultural crop region because of
its rainfall.
Landmass: 5, 532 km(2) Natural Resources: Rice, Coffee, Wood
GEOGRAPHICAL INFLUENCES
Balinese: 89%Javanese: 7%Baliaga:1%
Madurese: 1%Balinese and Indonesian are the main languages that are
spoken in Bali, while English is a common third language.
ETHNICITIES
Balinese Hinduism 93. 18%Islam 4.79%
Christianity 1.38%Buddhism 0.64%
REGION
Bali is famous for their different forms of art which include paintings, sculptures,
woodcarvings, handcrafts, and performing arts.A series of ceremonies and rituals called Manusa
yadnya is performed for each stage of life.Death and cremation is usually the biggest ceremony. The cremation ceremonies are
colorful, exciting and loud. They require a lot of preparation which can take years after the death. In the mean time the body is temporarily burried.
CULTURE
Gamelan: Name of a Balinese orchestra and a type of instrument.
Completely percussion Idiom: Folk/ Dance
Music used for religious rituals
TRADITIONAL BALINESE MUSIC
15-20 players- no conductor Heterophony- layers of main melody played at
the same time Complicated web of sound Four groups called Keteg
Gongs of different sizes mark cycles of music-Gongan
Lower pitch- longer note values Melodic line called Balungan
Solo instruments played very fast
GAMELAN ORCHESTRA
http://youtu.be/BmlAZxha8Pw
Gamelan Gongs
Wood xylophones Cymbals Flutes Drums
Bamboo Flutes
INSTRUMENTS
Gong Wadon: The largest Balinese Gong (Bass)
Gong Lanang: Slight higher pitch than the Wadon
Kempur: Mid points in the metric cycle
Klintong: High pitched played with a hard mallet
for a piercing song
GONGS
Gambang: a pair of two xylophones played with
double mallets Gamelan Joged Bumbang:
10 bar xylophone with bars suspended in a wooden
frame- played with rubber headed mallets
BAMBOO XYLOPHONES
Suling Bali: End Blown bamboo flute which plays
the scales Played with a circular breathing technique
FLUTES
March 25, 1881- September 26,1945
Greatest Hungarian composerGrew up in the Greater Hungary of the Austro-Hungarian EmpireSpent early years of childhood
away from other children because he had smallpox. This is when he spent most of his
time listening to his mom play
BELA BARTOK
Lived in povertyBecame sick with leukemia
The ASCAP (American Society for Composer, Authors, and Publishers) helped Bartok get better treatment
Died on September 26, 1945 in a New york hospital with his wife and son holding each hand
BELA BARTOK CONTINUED
Taught himself composition by reading scores Interested in other folk tradition music
Went to Pozsony Acadamy and after he graduated he started his career as a concert pianist.
Studied folk music of many different coutriesWanted to analyze major portions of the world's folk music
STUDIES
As a teenager, Bartok wrote chamber music in the style of Brahms under the influence of composer Erno Dohnanyi.
Influenced by Richard Strauss's perfomance of Also Sprach Zarathrustra
Bartok then combined his passion for Strauss with his Hungarian nationalism and produced Kossuth, his first
major work.Influenced by folk music from around the world
INFLUENCES
Became a music instructor at the Budapest Academy in 1907
Did this for over 25 yearsPerformed in 630 concerts in 22 countries
Composed Concerto for Orchestra which Bartok's most popular piece
PROMINENT WORKS
motoristic rhythms- irregular meters and off beat accents-textures- homophonic
harmony is result of contrapuntal movement- out of character of the melodiespolymodality
The music if Bali inspired Bela Bartok's No. 109 piece "From the Island of Bali"
Octatonic- combining 2 four note unitschromatic
polymodality- combining if different modes using same tonicC# -ding/ dIng D - dong/dOngE - deng/dEng G#- dung/dUng A -
dang/dAng
MUSIC STYLE
http://youtu.be/_BKKl25hWnE
Binary Form Begins soft then progresses to faster tempo
6/8 time then transitions to 4/4Both hands move up octave then back down with sforzando
Sustained base with contrapunal movementsOctatonic Scales
Diminished fifth- atonal sound of Balinese music Alternating hands- complex nature
ANALYSIS
http://www.musicatschool.co.ukhttp://www.bbc.co.uk
http://www.helloindonesia.comhttp://www.cia.gov
http://www.thebalitoday.comhttp://www.idsirtii.or.id
www.indo.comwww.youtube.com
http://uua.org/uuhs/duup/articles/belabartok
WORKS CITED