The Cloud Forest - WI Music - (Grade 4) - A cloud forest is generally a tropical or subtropical moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud cover. Cloud forests usually develop on the saddles of mountains where moisture introduced by settling clouds is more effectively retained. Important areas of cloud forests are in Central and South America, East and Central Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua-New Guinea and in the Caribbean.
The natural beauty of the Indonesian cloud forests, the gamelan music of the Indonesian culture and my numerous experiences with clouds in the mountains of Colorado combined to be the inspiration for The Cloud Forest. Specific unique rhythms, particular scale patterns and the layering of sounds are all characteristics of gamelan music that have been incorporated into this composition.
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