Book: Gamelan: A Way of Life!

Book: Gamelan: A Way of Life!Gamelan: A Way of Life Exhibit Catalog Learning about gamelan music is learning about life, according to gamelan master Midiyanto. Celebrate the music and instruments of the Kyai Rengga Manis Everist Gamelan and discover how gamelan is a reflection of Indonesian lessons, values and culture. The exhibition opened March 25 in the National Music Museums Groves Gallery for Special Exhibitions in Vermillion, SD, and will remain open throughout the summer.

The National Music Museum’s Javanese gamelan is one of the largest and finest outside of Indonesia

and creative achievement

Edited by Margaret Downie Banks

audio files are also supplied on a DVD included with the book

Ira Landgarten

function and development of keyboard instruments from early harpsichords to the modern piano

From the CD sleeve: "This is the second of two programs I recorded at the National Music Museum in Vermillion

Technical drawing of an archlute by Pieter Railich for Matteo Sellas

and such oddities as bicycle bugles and walking-stick trumpets enhances an already rich survey

"I should be writing a book

Purchase funds gift of Kevin Schieffer

Utley (1935-2001) and includes more than 600 instruments from around the world