HISTORY

TYPES OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC

Indonesia is a country made up of thousands of islands that stretches from Papua to Aceh. Among the many islands along with the communities born, grow and develop the traditional art which is identity, identity, expression of the media community supporters.

Almost all parts of Indonesia have typical traditional music. The uniqueness can be seen from his playing technique, presentation and form / organologi musical instruments.

Percussion instruments.
Percussion is the designation for all musical instruments playing techniques in o'clock, either by hand or stick. In this case some musical instruments belonging to the percussion instrument is, Gamelan, Arumba, Kendang, kolintang, drums, talempong, tambourine, drum, jimbe and others.

Gamelan is a musical instrument made of metal. Gamelan comes from the region of Central Java, DI. Yogyakarta, East Java, also in West Java which is commonly called the gamelan and Bali (Balinese Gamelan). One device consists of an instrument gamelan saron, demung, gong, kenong, slenthem, bonang and several other instruments. Gamelan has pentatonic / pentatonic.

Talempong is the art music tradition of the Minangkabau / Sumatra Barat. Talempong is pitched diatonic instrument (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do)

Kolintang or Kulintang comes from the Minahasa / North Sulawesi. Kolintang have diatonic / diatonic that all instrument consisting of bass, melodic and rhythmic. The basic ingredients for making kulintang is wood. How to play this instrument at the time by using a stick.

Arumba (strains bamboos) comes from West Java. Arumba is a musical instrument made of bamboo bhan played with melodic and rhythmic. At first arumba using pentatonic scales, but in its development using diatonic scales.

Drum is a kind of percussion instrument that membrane derived from animal skin. Drum or drum can be found in many parts of Indonesia. In western Java drums have peraanan important in the dance Jaipong. In Central Java, Bali, Yogyakarta, East Java drums used in the game is always good to accompany gamelan, dance, puppets, Ketoprak. Tifa is a kind of percussion musical instrument that can be encountered in the area of ​​Papua, Maluku and Nias. Tambourine is the type of drum that were mixed sizes from small to large. Tambourine is an instrument commonly used in the art of Islam breath. Tambourine can be encountered in almost all parts of Indonesia.

Pick Musical Instruments
Lute is a stringed musical instrument that originated from West Java. Organologi lute shape is a wooden box lined thereon strings / strings, wooden boxes are useful as a resonator. Musical instrument resembling a zither harp is of central Java.

Sasando is a stringed musical instrument from areas east Nusa Tenggara (East) this harp made of bamboo with a given string / strings while for resonasinya made of woven palm leaves that have a half-circle shape.

Sampek (until / sapek) is a musical instrument that resembles a guitar comes from Kalimantan region. This musical instrument made of wood filled with ornaments / carvings are beautiful. Other stringed instrument resembling sampek is Hapetan Tapanuli, Jungga from South Sulawesi

Stringed Musical Instruments.
Traditional musical instruments using game techniques is swiped fiddle. Fiddle from areas in West Java, Central Java, Jakarta (Betawi art). Rebabb made of wood and covered with a thin skin resonator, has two strings / strings and have the pentatonic scales. Other traditional musical instruments that have a shape like a fiddle is Ohyan resonatornya made from coconut shell, fiddle of this type can be found in Bali, Java and South Kalimantan.

Inflatable Musical Instruments
The flute is a woodwind instrument made of bamboo. almost all regions in Indonesia can be found this instrument. Saluang is a wind instrument from West Sumatra, flute can be found in northern Sumatra, Kalimantan. Lembang distilled from areas Toraja between 40-100cm in length with a diameter of 2cm.

Tarompet, serompet, bugle is a type of wind instrument which has a 4-6 hole to blow the tone and the funnel-shaped section. Art music tradition of using an instrument such as this is folk art Tapanuli, West Java, East Java, Madura, Papua.