Sulukan

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Sulukan normally refers to mood setting songs by a puppeteer (dhalang) in Javanese wayang ("puppet") performances in Indonesia. The term can also refer to the pathetan pieces played before and after gamelan pieces in a non-wayang context,^[1] and to mystical poetry relating to the doctrinal meaning of the term sulook.^[2]