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Buka

Buka can refer to:

  • Buka, Papua New Guinea, the war capital of Bougainville Province.
  • Buka Island is the second largest island in the Papua New Guinean province of Bougainville.
  • Buka Entertainment, a computer game publisher
  • Buka (music), the opening of a gamelan composition
  • Buká, a town in the Tashkent Province of Uzbekistan.
  • Buka cloak, a Noongar South West Western Australian indigenous language word describing usually kangaroo skin cloak worn draped over one shoulder.
  • Buka, Pomeranian Voivodeship (north Poland)
Buka (music)

The buka ( Javanese for "opening") is the short introduction to pieces of gamelan. It is also called the bubuka or bubuka opaq-opaq.

Buka are generally played by a single instrument in a free rhythm, until the last few notes when the kendhang comes in to set the tempo and cue the whole gamelan, which joins on the final note, with the first gong ageng.

Buka are often played by the bonang barung in the so-called "loud style." In other styles, they can be played by the rebab, gendér, or kendhang alone, or may be sung, especially by the dalang in a wayang performance.

Mantle Hood emphasizes the importance of the buka in the determination of the pathet of a gamelan composition, and analyzes it as an extended elaboration on the typical cadential formulas. He compares it to the alap of Hindustani classical music in its role of setting the mood and set of pitches.

Usage examples of "buka".

This proved true even after Pickering ig-nored all advice and ordered, from his hospital bed, the evacuation of two Marines operating a Coastwatcher Station on the Japanese-held island of Buka and were in imminent danger of death either from Japanese action or starva-tion.

General Pickering said, "to you three"-he indicated the Major, the Lieutenant, and the sergeant-"for the Buka Opera-tion.

McCoy-and Hart-had paddled ashore from a submarine onto the enemy-held island of Buka, carrying with them a desperately needed radio and some other supplies for a Coastwatcher team that was supplying information con-cerning Japanese sea and air movements critical for the battle of Guadalcanal.

Staff Sergeant Koffler doesn't look old enough to be a father-to-be, or a staff sergeant, or to have done what he did on Buka.

When I told him I was going to leave him alone overnight on the beach at Buka, all he said was "OK.

He couldn't have gone along on the Buka Operation if he had had a MAGIC clearance.

Not even when he found him-self in a rubber boat with Killer McCoy, paddling ashore onto the Japanese-held island of Buka, nor the gold bars on his collar when the other boots in his platoon at Parris Island were still hoping to make PFC.

First the Makin Island raid, then Buka to get Howard and Koffler out, and now the Philippines.

That's the kid who's been living like an animal under the noses of the Japs on Buka?

Pluto said, "to resume the answer I was giving before being so rudely interrupted by Lieutenant McCoy: Before we sent McCoy and Hart into Buka, we had to presume (a) that the Japanese were intercepting the radio traffic between here and Buka.

It followed from that that if we used the existing SOI to inform Buka when and where we were going to land McCoy and Hart on Buka, we would also be informing the Japanese.

He made the Makin raid, and he ran the operation when we replaced the Marines with the Coastwatchers on Buka.

And the worst part of the Buka Operation was getting there in a submarine.

When I saw the Gooney-bird coming in to take us off of Buka, the first thing I thought was, 'Thank Christ, I don't have to get back in that fucking submarine.

Sergeant Koffler spent some time on Buka with the Australian Coastwatchers, Sir.