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Soleram or Suliram [3] (also known as Soreram, or Suriram [4]) is a folk song from Riau, Indonesia. [5] [6] [7] It is also a well-known folk song in Malaysia. [4]This song is melodious and sung in a gentle rhythm, with lyrics that are relatively short and easy to remember.
Suling degung: a four-holed bamboo flute. Suling kawih: a six-holed bamboo flute, interchangeably used with suling degung; Gambang: a wooden xylophone. Kacapi: a zither. In classical degung, the bonang serves as a conductor for the whole ensemble. Except in certain modern compositions, it is rarely absent.
Suling is the Sundanese word for seruling the word of Indonesian, which means 'flute'. Made from bamboo, Indonesian flutes are always end blown and vary in size. The fingering position changes the wavelength of sound resonance inside the suling's body. Depending on the distance of nearest hole to the suling's head, different notes can be produced.
Several other instruments can also be included: the gambang (xylophone), suling (end-blown bamboo flute), and siter (plucked stringed instrument). Vocal parts called gerong (for male singers) or sindhen (for female singers) can be added in certain sections of pieces, as can alok , vocal cries that accent certain parts of the form or melody.
Tembang sunda, also called seni mamaos cianjuran, is a style of classical vocal music that originated in the Priangan highland of western Java.Unlike Sundanese gamelan music, tembang sunda was developed in the court of the regent Kabupaten Cianjur during the Dutch colonial period (mid-nineteenth century).
Suling, are made mainly of "tamiang" bamboo (Schizostachyum blumei, Nees), a long, thin-walled bamboo tube. The mouthpiece of the suling is circled with a thin band made of rattan near a small hole. Toleat, similar to a Suling, but the sound produced is similar to a Saxophone and differs from blowing techniques.
The music of Sumatra, Indonesia, is characterized by dangdut and the use of rabab and saluang instruments.. The Sumatran Toba people are distinctive in their use of tuned drums to carry the melody in their music; this practice is very rare worldwide.
The ensemble includes suling, various small percussion instruments similar to sleigh bells and finger cymbals, and trompong - a row of small kettle gongs that play the melody. A similar type of ensemble, Gamelan Pelegongan , substitutes a pair of gendérs for the trompong as the melody carrier and plays the music for a set of dances known as ...