Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In another composition called Rampak Kendang, a group of drummers play in harmony. Among the Makassarese , the Ganrang ( kendang ) drums have much more importance, with it considered the most sacred of all musical instruments, comparable to gongs in Java .
This is a list of Asian folk music traditions, with styles, dances, instruments and other related topics.The term folk music can not be easily defined in a precise manner; it definitions depending on the author,ended audience and context within a work.
Gendang Anak - used in traditional performances such as Wayang Kulit, Mak Yong and Main Puteri. Gendang Ibu - used in traditional performances such as Wayang Kulit , Mak Yong and Main Puteri . Gongs or Tetawak - used in classical Malay music of Nobat and traditional performances such as Dondang Sayang .
Gending Sriwijaya is the name of the traditional performance whether it is a song, music, as well as dance that originated from Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia.Both of the song and the dance was created to describes the splendor, cultural refinement, glory and the grandeur of Srivijaya empire that once succeed on unifying the western parts of Indonesian archipelago and Malay world generally.
The term dangdut is an onomatopoeia for the sound of the tabla (also known as gendang) drum, which is written dang and ndut. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Putu Wijaya initially mentioned in the 27 May 1972 edition of Tempo magazine that the doll song from India was a mixture of Malay songs, desert rhythms, and Indian "dang-ding-dut".
[3] [1] Unlike the more frequently used kendang, the bedug is suspended from a frame and played with a padded mallet. The bedug is as large as or larger than the largest kendang and generally has a deeper and duller sound. The drum has pegs holding the two identical heads in place, similar to the Japanese taiko, and its pitch is not adjustable.
The Marwas drums used to accompany Gambus music in Lampung, Indonesia often consist of four sizes with two skins of a diameter between 12-20 centimetres. [1] The skins are commonly made from goatskin and formerly black monkey skin and are laced with leather or plastic to a jackfruit-wood cylindrical body of around 8 to 10 centimetres in height.
Balinese people preserve cultural arts with their percussion instrument. Etymologically, the word 'kompang' is absorbed from the Javanese: ꦏꦺꦴꦩ꧀ꦥ꧀ꦭꦁ, romanized: komplang which means "empty" or "hollow", this refers to the shape of the kompang musical instrument itself which has a hollow part (on the back that is not covered with skin) so that it can produce loud sounds when hit.