{"id":284976,"date":"2023-03-07T09:22:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T05:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=284976"},"modified":"2024-02-19T12:08:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T08:08:18","slug":"exploring-gamelans-through-composition-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2023\/03\/07\/exploring-gamelans-through-composition-and-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Gamelans Through Composition and Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Grade 7 Music, the students have been learning about Gamelan orchestras of Southeast Asia.\u00a0 These traditional groupings have been used for centuries during important markers in community life. But the style of playing and the textures of sound are different from Western and Arabian tonalities.\u00a0 Over this unit the students have been exploring the pentatonic scale, A-B-A Form, and how textures of sound can change the piece of music.\u00a0 For the next few weeks, the students will be composing and arranging their own &#8220;gamelan&#8221; orchestras using xylophones and percussion instruments.\u00a0 Stay tuned for their summative performances!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/20230307_085433-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-284977 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/20230307_085433-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/20230307_084625-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-284978 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/20230307_084625-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Grade 7 Music, the students have been learning about Gamelan orchestras of Southeast Asia.\u00a0 These traditional groupings have been used for centuries during important markers in community life. But the style of playing and the textures of sound are different from Western and Arabian tonalities.\u00a0 Over this unit the students have been exploring the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":829,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,192,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-7","category-myp","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}