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The Music of Java embraces a wide variety of styles, both traditional and contemporary, reflecting the diversity of the island and its lengthy history.Apart from traditional forms that maintain connections to musical styles many centuries old, there are also many unique styles and conventions which combine elements from many other regional influences, including those of neighbouring Asian ...
Indonesia is a country with many different tribes and ethnic groups, and its music is also very diverse, coming in hundreds of different forms and styles.Every region has its own culture and art, and as a result traditional music from area to area also uniquely differs from one another.
Langgam jawa is a regional form of Indonesian kroncong music most often associated with the city of Surakarta (Solo). As is the case with traditional kroncong music, langgam jawa utilizes a variety of non-native instruments, such as the flute , guitar , ukulele , cello and violin .
The combination thus ends up with the Western instruments being dominated by the traditional Javanese instruments according to the local taste of langgam jawa and gending. Some popular Campursari artists are Didi Kempot and older langgam jawa kroncong diva Waljinah .
In Sundanese music the term musical instrument or musical sound produced in various ways is called Waditra.. In Sundanese music, there are several Waditra, namely Waditra Tiup (inflatable), Waditra Takol (beat), Waditra Tepak (tap), Waditra Keset (mat) and Waditra Geter (vibrate).
Noah (formerly known as Peterpan; and later stylized as NOAH) are an Indonesian rock band formed as Peterpan in Bandung, West Java in 2000, which consisted of six members: Ariel, Andika, Indra, Lukman, Reza and Uki, with Andika as the leader.
The kepatihan cipher system records the two fixed elements of Javanese gamelan music: the melodic framework (or balungan (literally, skeleton)) represented by numbers, and the set of punctuating gongs that define the form, represented by circles and other symbols.
The Javanese siter and celempung are plucked string instruments used in Javanese gamelan.They are related to the kacapi used in Sundanese gamelan.. The siter and celempung each have between 11 and 13 pairs of strings, strung on each side, between a box resonator.