Bedug

Javanese Gamelan is a musical with pentatonic melodies. A complete gamelan play consists of two rounds, the slendro and slendro. Slendro has 5 tones per octave, ie 1 2 3 5 6 [C-D + E GA] with a small interval differences. Pelog have seven tones per octave, ie 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [C + D E-F # G # AB] with big interval difference. Gamelan music compositions created by some of the rules, which consist of several rounds and pathet, limited by a gong and the melodies are created in a unit consisting of four tones.
You can see gamelan as a separate musical performance as well as a dance or performing arts such as shadow puppets and ketoprak. As a performance, gamelan music is usually combined with the voices of the singers of Java (called wiraswara male singers and female singers called waranggana). Gamelan music is performed can now be a classic or contemporary gamelan. One form of contemporary gamelan is jazz-gamelan music as a combination of pentatonic and diatonic tone.
One of the places in Yogyakarta where you can see the sultan's palace gamelan performances. On Thursday at 10:00 to 12:00 pm gamelan as a musical performance itself. Saturday at the same time as the accompaniment of gamelan music performed puppet show, while on Sunday at the same time as the accompaniment of gamelan music performed traditional Javanese dance. To see the show, you can go to Sri Maganti. While to see the old gamelan, you can go to another of the kingdom which lies further to the rear.

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Saron

NMM 9899. Sarong Demung in Laras Slendro. Largest member of saron group. Metallophone with seven large bronze bars placed over teakwood frame. Keys held in place by two pins inserted through holes in the bar and embedded in the frame. Decorated with flower and leaf pattern covered in gold leaf. Length: 114.6 cm. Mallet (tabuh) with long handle and large, oval-shaped wooden striker.Function:  The saron instruments play the basic or skeletal melody of the music—the balungan. This basic melody is an abstraction of the melody played by the elaborating instruments. Usually the notation for any piece of music will be limited to the part played by the saron instruments.Playing technique:  The saron instruments are played by striking the bar in its center with the oval end of the mallet and dampening the previous bar when the next is played. The player sits on the side with the pitches ascending to the right.

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Kendang

Gamelan gong music of Bali and Java is familiar to many listeners. The kendang is the drum which accompanies the gong orchestra. Different versions of the kundang are found in each Indonesian island. This drum is barrel shaped with the right hand skin slightly larger than the left. Each skin can create two fundamental tones with the right being a deep bass that is sometimes hit with a mallet during climactic scenes in the drama they accompany. The left skin has a high pitched slap that is characteristic of this drum. The two fundamental tones of each skin can be changed by covering the opposing skin at the time of striking. Therefore the kendang has a variety of sounds that rivals the Indian tabla.
The kendang likely descended from the South Indian mirdangam when the South Indian Chola dynasty was influential in the Indonesian archipeligo between the 9th and 13th centuries, during which time Indian mythology which makes up the subject matter of many gamelan plays also was introduced. The kendang is usually played in duet with a unique method whereby the duo trade off elements of the same rhythm. The effect is a volleying of parts of a single rhythm in stereo across the stage like a tennis match. The drum is used to guide the pace of the gamelan orchestra as well as to accent the actions and gestures of the actors of the story being accompanied.Gamelan and the kendang drum can be found throughout Southeast Asia  (gendang is the alternate pronunciation in Malaysia, ghi nang in Vietnam) with the musical stlye and shape of the instruments differing by small degrees.

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Parang

Parang was once used exclusively by the royal courts of Central Java. It has several suggested meanings such as 'rugged rock', 'knife pattern' or 'broken blade'. The Parang design consists of slanting rows of thick knife-like segments running in parallel diagonal bands. Parang usually alternated with narrower bands in a darker contrasting color. These darker bands contain another design element, a line of lozenge-shaped motifs call mlinjon. There are many variations of this basic striped pattern with its elegant sweeping lines, with over forty parang designs recorded. The most famous is the 'Parang Rusak' which in its most classical form consisting of rows of softly folded parang. This motif also appears in media other than batik, including woodcarving and as ornamentation on gamelan musical instruments.

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Ceplok

Ceplok is a general name for a whole series of geometric designs based on squares, rhombs, circles, stars, etc. Although fundamentally geometric, ceplok can also represent abstractions and stylization of flowers, buds, seeds and even animals. Variations in color intensity can create illusions of depth and the overall effect is not unlike medallion patterns seen on Turkish tribal rugs. The Indonesian population is largely Muslim, a religion that forbids the portrayal of animal and human forms in a realistic manner. To get around this prohibition, the batik worker does not attempt to express this matter in a realistic form. A single element of the form is chosen and then that element is repeated again and again in the pattern. Ceplok is a general name for a whole series of geometric designs based on squares, rhombs, circles, stars, etc. Although fundamentally geometric, ceplok can also represent abstractions and stylization of flowers, buds, seeds and even animals. Variations in color intensity can create illusions of depth and the overall effect is not unlike medallion patterns seen on turkish tribal rugs. The indonesian population is largely muslim, a religion that forbids the portrayal of animal and human forms in a realistic manner. To get around this prohibition, the batik worker does not attempt to express this matter in a realistic form. A single element of the form is chosen and then that element is repeated again and again in the pattern.

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Kawung

Kawung is another very old design consisting of intersecting circles, known in Java since at least the thirteenth century. This design has appeared carved into the walls of many temples throughout Java such as Prambanan near Jogjakarta and Kediri in East Java. For many years, this pattern was reserved for the royal court of the Sultan of Jogjakarta. The circles are sometimes embellished inside with two or more small crosses or other ornaments such as intersecting lines or dots. It has been suggested that the ovals might represent flora such as the fruit of the kapok (silk cotton) tree or the aren (sugar palm). Batik motifs Kawung - Indonesia has hundreds of batik motif is still largely dominated by the island of Java. One is the famous batik motif which kawung.
Kawung own batik flower picture palm trees (fruit and fro). Has a geometric motif kawung rectangular according to Javanese culture represents a doctrine of human life. Early history kawung batik motif is used among the royal family, but after going dichotomy Mataram two batik motifs and patterns, are subject to a different class. In Surakarta kawung batik motif is used by groups and court employees Punokawan priyantaka row, while the story pewaygan, kawung motif is used by Semar, Gareng, Petruk and Bagong.

Mengenal Ragam motif batik Kawung:

Motif Batik Kawung Picis berasal dari nama uang pecahan sepuluh sen.

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Candi Borobudur

Borobudur is the biggest Buddhist temple in Indonesia located in Muntilan District, Regency of Magelang, Central Java Province. It is the beautiful and glorious temple which was built in seventh century during the Dynasty of Syailendra. Borobudur temple had attracted since seventeenth century as mentioned in Babad Tanah Jawi. Sir Stanford Raffles (1811-1816) interested stone building of Budur village, and to appoint H.C. Cornelius to clean this building and Th. Van Erp 1907-1911 who intended firstly to conserve the building stone in hill. And big scale conservation in 1973-1983 under the leader of Prof. Ir. Rooseno and Dr. R. Soekmono funded by Indonesia and grant from other countries. Borobudur temple has the form of terrace with big stupa. The temple forms has a series of symmetric building

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