(sometimes written Hudan Mas
, the name means "Golden Rain") is a composition for gamelan
which is popular in Central Java, especially Yogyakarta
. It is a bubaran
, which is an ending piece played while the audience departs. In Western concert performances, it is often played as an encore
. It is often one of the pieces students learn early in their studies.
The piece can be played in a wide variety of pathet
, including pélog
pathet barang and nem, and sléndro
pathet sanga and nem. It can also be played as either a lancaran
or a ladrang
, with related balungan
The recording of the piece on Javanese Court Gamelan
, possibly the most famous, is in pélog pathet barang and has a lancaran structure.Mantle Hood
offers an analysis of the ladrang in The Nuclear Theme as a Determinant of Patet in Javanese Music
. He adduces it in his theory of the importance of cadence
contours in its variation in different pathet.Hujan Mas
, which also means "Golden Rain" in modern Indonesian
is a well known 20th century composition for Balinese Gamelan in the kebyar
- Brown, Robert E. Notes to Java: Court Gamelan. Reissued edition. New York: Nonesuch 79719-2, 2003.
- Hood, Mantle. The Nuclear Theme as a Determinant of Patet in Javanese Music. New York: Da Capo, 1977. Pages 185-187 and 243-244.