1. What are the two possible scales to which a gamelan can be tuned?

2. What important musical tradition from Java and Bali is an ensemble that plays a collection of instruments?

3. Gamelan music is used for this popular traditional entertainment that includes shadow puppet theater.

4. In Java, what is a piece for the gamelan called?

5. What gamelan instrument features several bronze kettles suspended within a wooden frame, hit with mallets?

6. What gamelan instrument is xylophone-like with keys of different pitches?

7. What gamelan instrument is from the “soft” category (non-metallic), and is a wooden flute?

8. In Bali, which tradition features gamelan and female dancers in elaborate costumes?

9. What gamelan instrument is a set of hanging gongs?

10. In gamelan music, patterns of 8, 16, or 32 beats that often loop together are called?

11. What Balinese gamelan technique refers to a style that contains flash, dazzle, or a flaring up?

12. What is the study of geographic areas, tying together cultural practices by their location?

13. Which island is where gamelan tradition is presented as flashier, with a more flamboyant performance style?

14. In a gamelan, what non-bronze drum is used by the “leader” of the group—a title that is more related to its role in the rhythm than as a conductor?

15. What large, circular bronze gamelan instrument is struck only once within the complete cycle, usually as the first or last beat?

16. Which island is where gamelan tradition espouses a more traditional method of performance?

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