gamelan
noun
gam·elan
ˈga-mə-ˌlan 
-ˌlän
: an Indonesian orchestra made up especially of percussion instruments (such as gongs, xylophones, and drums)
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Beat communicated with advanced and exotic languages, its wide-ranging vocabulary including experimental, art-rock,pop, jazz, funk, new-wave and gamelan elements.
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Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
Debussy hovers around the enclosure of the Javanese village at the International Exposition of 1889 in Paris, his mind expanded by the gamelan ensemble.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Delivered over gamelan ensembles and other traditional instrumentation, the song pleads for the city to return to its roots as a humble town without the new hotels, malls, and hectic traffic that now clog the city.
—Jon Emont, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2015
The collection also includes a gamelan and other musical instruments, a 19th-century star calendar created to predict the likely destiny of a person born on a certain day, and a duo of 17th-century celestial royal maidens carved from pink volcanic tuff stone.
—Ashlea Halpern, TIME, 25 July 2024
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Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
Debussy hovers around the enclosure of the Javanese village at the International Exposition of 1889 in Paris, his mind expanded by the gamelan ensemble.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Delivered over gamelan ensembles and other traditional instrumentation, the song pleads for the city to return to its roots as a humble town without the new hotels, malls, and hectic traffic that now clog the city.
—Jon Emont, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2015
The collection also includes a gamelan and other musical instruments, a 19th-century star calendar created to predict the likely destiny of a person born on a certain day, and a duo of 17th-century celestial royal maidens carved from pink volcanic tuff stone.
—Ashlea Halpern, TIME, 25 July 2024
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“Gamelan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gamelan. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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