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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Candi Prambanan

Prambanan temple is a great building based on Hindu religion familiarly with 

Bandung Bondowoso story, located in border of Special District of Yogyakarta, and Central Java Province. The temple constructed in 856 A.D., known as monument of Siva the most beautiful and biggest temple in Indonesia, built in the era of Rakai Pikatan in 846-855 A.D. Mr. C.A. Lons was interested in that temple. In 1733 the condition of the temple was covered by land and plant. Effort of cleaning on the large scale was done in 1855 and in 1919 started to be conserved. In 1953 Siva temple finished to be restored, while Prambanan complex finished in 1993. 

The biggest complex of Prambanan temple has three main yards, first yard is 110 x 110 m with three main temples namely Siva temple in central, Brahma in the south, and Vishnu in the North. These three main temples symbolized three gods of Hindu religion in the concept of Trimurti. In front of those three main temples there is three temples called Wahana, God transportation that Eagle for Brahma, Buffalo for Siva, and Swan for Vishnu. Beside Wahana temple there is Kelir temple placed in every gate and two temples and Sudut temple. At the second yard there is Perwara temple; accompanying temple arranged in four rows surrounded the first yard in amount 224 pieces. First row is 68 constructions, second is 60 constructions, third 52 and fourth 44 constructions. From that number only a few number can be reconstructed. The third yard could not be found any building of temple.

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Candi Pawon

Terletak kurang lebih 2 km dari Borobudur, candi ini sebenarnya gerbang pintu masuk ke kompleks Borobudur. Candi Pawon dibangun sekitar tahun 800 M diatas pondasi dari bangunan yang lebih tua lagi.Candi Pawon adalah nama sebuah candi. Candi Pawon dipugar tahun 1903. Nama Candi Pawon tidak dapat diketahui secara pasti asal-usulnya. J.G. de Casparis menafsirkan bahwa Pawon berasal dari bahasa Jawa Awu yang berarti abu, mendapat awalan pa dan akhiran an yang menunjukkan suatu tempat. Dalam bahasa Jawa sehari-hari kata pawon berarti dapur, akan tetapi De Casparis mengartikan perabuan. Penduduk setempat juga menyebutkan candi Pawon dengan nama Bajranalan. Kata ini mungkin berasal dari kata Sansekerta vajra = "halilintar" dan anala = "api".
Di dalam bilik candi ini sudah tidak ditemukan lagi arca sehingga sulit untuk mengidentifikasikannya lebih jauh.

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Puppet People / wayang orang

Indonesian arts may not be very popular and liked in his own country. However, it does not mean the Indonesian arts unpopular abroad. Wayang art played by the group of Indonesian Wayang Heritage gets rousing welcome at the Opera House in Sydney, Australia, and is scheduled to play in a number of countries in Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Cultural observer, Jaya Suprana after accompanying some members of the Indonesian Wayang Heritage group met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the presidential office, Jakarta, February 17, 2011 said, some countries are interested in wayang art.

He explains, some countries already invited, among others, Germany, France, South Africa, and Singapore. Puppet group this person will be able to fulfill the invitation if you get the support from the government. "The limitations are in terms of funds," he said.

At the time meet the president, Jaya Suprana also reported that the puppet group of people that have come up with the play Banjaran Gatotkaca at the Opera House in Sydney, Australia, on December 18, 2010.

Appearances puppet group of people that got applause from an Australian citizen and an Indonesian citizen who lived in the kangaroo country. At that time, the Wayang Orang Indonesia Treasures featuring stories of heroism Gatot Kaca. They were able to attract the attention of an Australian citizen since inserting the use of English when appearing.

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