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Bali Gamelan Sound – Topeng Semar Pegulingan

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Bali Gamelan Sound
Topeng Semar Pegulingan
Agustín Oscar Rissotti's recordings of Indonesian music capture the ritual context often stripped from Western gamelan releases
Topeng Semar Pegulingan by Bali Gamelan Sound
The musicological study of Bali that Canadian-US composer Colin McPhee and his colleague Lou Harrison undertook during the 1930s is usually seen as critical in bringing gamelan to the West. However, the infatuation of European practitioners with the traditional Indonesian percussive

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