Music of Bali

Balinese music is music belonging to Indonesia island of Bali. The majority of Balinese music is instrumental and is listed with a gamelan ensemble called, as it occurs also comparable to the larger neighboring island of Java. In Buddhism and Hinduism influenced by pre-Islamic times, some musical forms from East Java have been introduced to Bali. From the 17th century the Balinese music developed largely independently.

A vocal style is the monkey imitative choral singing in the Kecak Dance.

Balinese instruments are bronze Metalophones, bamboo xylophones, gongs, gong circle Trompong and a variety of drums and rattles as the angklung. There are different sizes of bamboo flutes ( suling ) and a two-string spike fiddle ( rebab ).

A developed in the 20th century form of the gamelan is the Kebyar, an energetic style, whose recent variant Kreasi baru ( " new creation " ) is called.