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gamelan|ˈgæməlæn|
Also gamelang.
[Javanese, f. gamel to handle.]
A type of orchestra common in the East Indies, esp. in Java, consisting mainly of percussion instruments with some woodwind and string ones. Also transf. and attrib.
1817T. S. Raffles Hist. Java I. viii. 469 The musical instruments of the Javans are peculiar. Several of them are necessary to compose a gámelan, set, or band. 1869A. R. Wallace Malay Archip. I. vii. 161 A native band or Gamelang, was playing almost all the evening. 1949C. McPhee in Musical Q. XXXV. 250 Just at what point the gamelan emerged from a small ensemble of gongs into the elaborately organized orchestra it is today is not known. 1965New Statesman 10 Sept. 370/2 The wild music that Boulez scores for his gamelan orchestra of xylophones, harps, celesta, vibraphone, piano and multitudinous bells. 1967J. Cleary Long Pursuit viii. 180 Behind him half a dozen musicians had begun to play, two of them on percussion instruments like a xylophone, the others with gongs, cymbals and a drum. ‘The gamelan, that is the orchestra, plays what the Darlan tells it.’
b. A percussion instrument resembling a xylophone, used in the East Indies.
1934in Webster. 1967Listener 10 Aug. 170/1 A woman singer and a gamelan-player moved through the Pullman coaches. |
