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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 1995/08

From: Tom Izzo <tji@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Gender tendencies for instruments
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 07:49:20 -0400

On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Doug Cook wrote:

> Hi, folks,
> Just for some reference on this gender and clarinet
> issue: I searched the University of California's Melvyl
> catalog (knew that degree was worth something), and came up
> with the following references, which Melvyl kindly mailed
> me (you can use Melvyl by telnet'ing to "melvyl.ucop.edu").
>
> I've edited out the references which were blatantly unrelated
> ("gender wayang" seems to be a common string related to
> Balinese gamelan music. Anyone know what this means?). Some of the
> remaining entries are perhaps only marginally related.

Yes, the Gamelan to us would be an orchestra. In Balinese culture it is
considered one instrument (though played by 16-40 people). It is a group
of people playing all manner of percussion instruments of the wood
mallett type-sort of xylophone, marimba, etc; and all manner of bells,
gongs, and tam tams. The rhythms are VERY complex. The music is not
notated-all of it is learned by rote from a young age, but performed in
public only as an adult.

The music is only played by males in Bali, 'course in America...

Tom
tji@-----.edu