Indonesian Traditional Music
Homeland is a country covering thousands of islands that stretches from Sabang to Merauke, which of the many islands and its people are born, grow and develop various cultural areas. Traditional art which is the identity, the identity and expression of community media supporters.
Almost all of the Homeland traditional musical arts have a special and distinctive. Can be seen from the unique look of the game techniques, presentation and form / organologi musical instruments. Traditional art itself has a high spirit of collectivity, so that it can recognize the characters and the distinctive characteristics of Indonesia, which is famous friendly and polite.
To know more about us closer to traditional music can be categorized into several groups:
1. Percussion Musical Instruments.
Percussion is the designation for all musical instruments playing techniques in time, either by hand or stick. In this case some musical instruments belonging to the percussion instrument is the gamelan, Kendang, Harp, Arumba, Talempong, Sampek and Kolintang, Tambourine, napkin, jimbe and others.
a. Gamelan is a musical instrument made of metal, gamelan comes from the region of Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java, West Java also called gamelan and Balinese gamelan in Bali called. One set of gamelan consist of saron instruments, demung, gong, kenong, slentem, bonang, peking, gender and several other instruments. Besides, it has a tone pentatonic gamelan / pentatonic.
b. Drums are kind of percussion instrument that membranes derived from animal skins (goat). Drums or drum can be found in many parts of Indonesia. In the area of ​​West Java has an important role in the drum dance Jaipong. In Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java and Bali drums used in the game is always a good gamelan to accompany dances, puppet and ketoprak. Tifa is a kind of drum instruments that can be encountered in the area of ​​Papua, Maluku and Nias. Tambourine is a type of musical instruments commonly used in the art having Islamic. tambourine can be found in almost all parts of Indonesia.
c. Lute is a stringed musical instrument from West Java daerh. Organologi lute shape is a wooden box lined strings above / strings, wooden box is useful as resonatornya. Musical instrument resembling a zither harp is from Central Java.
d. Arumba (bamboo strains) originated from West Java daereah. Arumba is a musical instrument made of bamboo to be played with melodic and rhythmic. Pad originally arumba using pentatonic scales but in its development using diatonic scales.
e. Talempong is the art music tradition of the Minangkabau. Talempong is pitched diatonic instrument (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do).
f. Sampek (until / sapek) adlah musical instrument resembling a guitar comes from Kalimantan. This instrument is made of wood covered with ornaments / carvings are beautiful. Other stringed instruments resembling sampek is Hapetan of Tapanuli, Jungga of South Sulawesi.
g. Kolintang or kulintang came from the Minahasa. This instrument has a diatonic scales that all instrument consisting of bass, melodic and rhythmic. The basic ingredients are made of wood and how to play this instrument in time by using a stick.
h. Sasando is a stringed musical instrument derived from the East Nusa Tenggara, the harp is made of bamboo with a given string / strings while resonasinya made from woven palm leaves that have a half-sphere shape.
2. Stringed Musical Instruments.
Traditional musical instruments using this technique is swiped Trigon game. Trigon comes from West Java, Central Java, Jakarta (Betawi arts). Fiddle made of wood and covered with a thin skin resonatornya, has two strings / strings and have the pentatonic scales. Other traditional musical instruments have a shape like a resonatornya Ohyan rebab is made from coconut shell. Trigon of this type can be found in Bali, Java and South Kalimantan.
3. Inflatable Musical Instruments.
The flute is a musical instrument wind instrument made of bamboo almost all regions in Indonesia can be found this instrument. Saluang is a wind instrument from West Sumatra, the flute can be found in North Sumatra, Kalimantan. Lembang distilled from Toraja region having a length between 40-100 cm with a diameter of 2 cm.
Tarompet, serompet, bugle is a type of wind instrument that has a 4-6 hole to blow the tone and the funnel-shaped. The art of traditional music using instruments such as these are folk art Tapanuli, West Java, East Java, Madura and Papua.