Dennis Murphy (musician)
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Dennis Murphy (musician)
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Dennis Murphy was a composer, musician, instrument maker, artist, and playwright. Dennis Murphy was one of the fathers of American gamelan. Lou Harrison credits Murphy as being the first North American to build gamelan instruments. He composed numerous works and shadow plays for gamelan. Starting around 1959 or 1960, while earning a master's degree in theory and composition at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Murphy got interested in gamelan during a survey course which included a
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