KARAWITAN

Hello everyone, have you heard about Karawitan?

           Karawitan is the one of the thousand traditional music from Indonesia. The term karawitan refers to the playing of gamelan instruments, and comes from the word rawit, meaning 'intricate' or 'finely worked'. The word derives from the Javanese word of Sanskrit origin, rawit, which refers to the sense of smoothness and elegance idealized in Javanese music (from wikipedia)

          The most important thing in gamelan is the harmonization of all the instrument .

Karawitan usually played on most of Javanese occasion like Weddings, Religious day, and Formals occasion.
Nowadays in Jakarta, Karawitan still preserved by teaching them for students. We know that so many university, and school teach gamelan for the students. They also make a Karawitan competition.

There are the instrument of gamelan :

- Bonang

-Bonang Penerus

-Saron

-Gong

-Kendang

-Demung

-Kempul

-Saron penerus

-Ketuk

-peking