Story of Bali, Indonesia

It in this continually recurrent Music, with no conclusive ending, no true beginning, the oriental conception of timeless, endless melody is revealed, revolving in smaller or larger cycles but never advancing to a climax! It is perhaps this quality that led Bateson (1949) to conclude that Balinese music, as an art form, lacks climax. However, some Balinese describe the beginning, middle, and end Parts of gamelan music. The' drums throb continuously in agitated crescendos and diminuendos that forever urge the dancers onward or hold them back' (McPhee, 1948). Balinese gamelan music may be comparable to some music of Bach and much modem popular Western music (including rock) in terms of thematic repetition and the lack of a single climactic emphasis.

At first, I listened from the house, the music was simply a delicious confusion, a strangely sensuous and quite unfathomable art, mysteriously aerial, Aeolian, filled with joy and radiance. Each night as the music started up I experienced the same sensation in of freedom and indescribable freshness.

Religious ceremonies, which are integral to the thinking and attitudes of the Balinese, continue as frequently and as strongly as ever and remain relatively unchanged over the years in spite of modernization trends. Children are excused from school and adults from work in order to participate.

The Balinese regularly perform a multitude of ceremonies which occupy a relatively large portion of their time and effort, consume a significant portion of their savings, and have deep significance for life. A number of scholars have described many in detail . Ceremonies usually involve the extended family, one's own banjar, or the entire desa.. Some ceremonies, as Panca Wali Krama at the mother temple, involve all of Bali: during one month in every 10 years, cars, trucks, and buses bring of all ages to pray and make offerings. Almost all ceremonies involve the participation of many people.

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