Gamelan gong kebyar Essays

As shown as the below score, the bottom line acting as a similar role to gong in Gamelan music, a sustaining bass note. The middle is the counter melody while the top plays the nuclear- melody. What’s special here is the pentatonic melody. If Debussy wanted to imitate Gamelan music, he wouldn’t use pentatonic scale; instead, he might use those two traditional Gamelan scales, slendro and pelog. This was not the first time he used pentatonic scale, he had used it in an orchestral piece, Printemps in

Farewell My Concubine and To Live are two drastically different films that represented the Communist takeover as well as other major events of turbulence like the Japanese invasion. While Dieyi presented a life of hardships, through intense beatings and punishment by the troupe master, it was not the same with Fugui. Fugui began the movie as a rich gambler. However, when the Cultural Revolution surfaced in both films, the lives of both characters were under pressure. Dieyi had to live in a chaotic