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Balinese gamelan musicians perform
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- 1986
- Location
- Batubulan, Bali, Indonesia
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
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- Traditional performing arts in Bali: Photographs and text illustrate traditional performance in Bali, including music, theater, and dance. (Page 2)
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Balinese gamelan musicians perform, as seen from the rear side of the orchestra. Two men, wearing red pants, long-sleeved blue shirts, and red and gold embroidered headscarves hold their mallets just above their intricately carved and painted metallophone instruments.
Both Java and Bali have large traditional orchestral ensembles and musical repertoires known as gamelan
