The first thing we must establish is the immense diversity of music within Indonesia alone—the gamelan orchestras of Java and Bali are much more similar to Thailand’s phipat music than it is to, say, sasando music of Rote Island or even Angklung music of the Sunda people (who share an island with the Javanese). So I’m using the description ‘Indonesian music’ as an umbrella term for the most widely spread traditional and folk music typologies that belong to cultures that happened to fall under Indonesia’s current geopolitical borders.
As with many Austronesian cultures, both Thai and Indonesian music feature percussions (non-melodic ones like various forms of drums and melodic ones, usually metallophones like the Indonesian gamelan or Thai ranat).
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The first thing we must establish is the immense diversity of music within Indonesia alone—the gamelan orchestras of Java and Bali are much more similar to Thailand’s phipat music than it is to, say, sasando music of Rote Island or even Angklung music of the Sunda people (who share an island with the Javanese). So I’m using the description ‘Indonesian music’ as an umbrella term for the most widely spread traditional and folk music typologies that belong to cultures that happened to fall under Indonesia’s current geopolitical borders.
As with many Austronesian cultures, both Thai and Indonesian music feature percussions (non-melodic ones like various forms of drums and melodic ones, usually metallophones like the Indonesian gamelan or Thai ranat).