- Udan Mas
Udan Mas (sometimes written Hudan Mas, the name means "Golden Rain") is a composition for
gamelan which is popular in Central Java, especiallyYogyakarta . It is abubaran , which is an ending piece played while the audience departs. In Western concert performances, it is often played as an encore. It is often one of the pieces students learn early in their studies.The piece can be played in a wide variety of
pathet , includingpélog pathet barang and nem, andsléndro pathet sanga and nem. It can also be played as either alancaran or aladrang , with relatedbalungan .The recording of the piece on "
Javanese Court Gamelan ", possibly the most famous, is in pélog pathet barang and has a lancaran structure.Mantle Hood offers an analysis of the ladrang in "The Nuclear Theme as a Determinant of Patet in Javanese Music". He adduces it in his theory of the importance of cadence contours in its variation in different pathet.References
* Brown, Robert E. Notes to "Java: Court Gamelan". Reissued edition. New York: Nonesuch 79719-2, 2003.
* Hood, Mantle. "The Nuclear Theme as a Determinant of Patet in Javanese Music". New York: Da Capo, 1977. Pages 185-187 and 243-244.External links
* [http://www.gamelan.org/library/notation/udanmasbonang.pdf Transcription] of
balungan andbonang parts
* [http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~jjordan/gamelan/music/bubaran_udan_mas.html Recordings] ofPura Pakualaman gamelan andUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison gamelan
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