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School / Work Affiliation: Senior High School 9th in Malang Indonesia

Blog: http://budiputranto.blogspot.com

About Me: I was born in Semarang, now I live in Malang It's a big town located at the centre coastline of easth Java, and popularly known for its "Aremania" and BENTOEL cigarette. Just call me Dody, it's a nick name who's everybody used to call me. I work as Art & Culture teacher in SMA Negeri 9 Malang . I have a point that education is the best path to emancipate our future generation. This blog represents my view, opinion and exploration of many things in life. Hope you enjoy it. Have a nice reading.

Ketwang Puspawarna

Puspawarna (Javanese for "kinds of flowers") is a gamelan composition famous in central Java. It is a ketawang in slendro pathet manyura. Thus the full title of the piece is Ketawang Puspawarna Laras Slendro Pathet Manyura. As manyura is the final pathet in a wayang performance, the mood it evokes is of ripeness or fulfillment.

The piece is performed for the entrance of the prince. The text refers to different kinds of flowers, each symbolizing a different rasa. The text and melody are attributed to Prince Mangkunegara IV of Surakarta (reigned 1853-1881), to commemorate his favorite wives and concubines.

A recording of Puspawarna by the court gamelan of Pura Paku Alaman, Yogyakarta, directed by K.R.T. Wasitodipuro (now K.P.H. Natoprojo), recorded by Robert E. Brown, was included on the Voyager Golden Record, which was sent on the Voyager 1 spacecraft as a greeting to whatever extraterrestrials may find it. The recording is also available on the album Java: Court Gamelan (originally released in 1971). According to the note by Brown in the reissued version of that CD, "Puspawarna" was one of Carl Sagan's favorites on the record.
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At 9:01am on October 13, 2012, Amelia said…: Hello dear,I'm Amelia by name,I have something very important to discuss with you,please kindly email be back(
amelia_herbert23@yahoo.com)I will be waiting to hear from you soon.Thanks

At 10:32am on January 13, 2008, Vincent Mespoulet said…: Would you like to post your batik project on my european educational network School Beyond the School http://horslesmurs.nong.com ? We have among our members a wonderful Art teacher called Grazina, from Lithuania, and also their students aged from 10 to 18. We are also engaged in a fine french project: Poets Spring and we would like to have indonesian poems with drawings if you want... Check out please our site anf tell me if you are interested by a distant and collaborative work between your students and european students from France, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Romania and Czech Republic...
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