Rebab
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Rebab is the name of several related string instruments that independently spread via Islamic trading routes over much of North Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and parts of Europe.
K.P.H. Notoprojo, famous Indonesian Rebab player
Rebabs, Mevlâna mausoleum, Konya, Turkey
Rebab from Yemen.
Bedouin playing a rebab during World War II
Gamelan
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Gamelan is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments. The most common instruments used are metalloph
Rebab
…which has similar shape and structure. It spread to different regions including South East Asia through Islamic trading routes. In the Indonesian gamelan the rebab is an essential elaborating instrument, ornamenting the basic melody. A two-string bowed lute consisting of a wooden body, traditionally…
A gamelan player playing bonang. Gamelan Yogyakarta style during a Javanese wedding.
Musicians performing musical ensemble, The 8th century bas-relief of Borobudur Temple, Central Java, Indonesia
Gamelan is mentioned in the Kakawin Nagarakertagama in a palm-leaf manuscript called lontar that was written by Mpu Prapanca in 1365 AD. A collection of National Library of Indonesia in Jakarta
The court of the Sultan of Yogyakarta, c. 1876. Performance of Bedhaya Sacred Dance accompanied by Javanese Gamelan Ensemble