Thursday, July 2, 2009

Karawitan

Karawitan is one branch of art music, so before discussing about karawitan very much prevalent in this research to know the meaning of the "Music". According to some experts "Music is a beautiful expression of human feeling in the form of a concept in a rounded shape tones-ringing or other sounds to a rhythm and harmony and have a space in the form of time, known by themselves and other human beings in the environment of his life."
Mark in the next Hermansyah (2005: 19), art and music is the expression or the expression of the soul of man expressed in beautiful sound. Expression of the human spirit can be realized in various works of music that berragam types and colors. further expression of the soul is usually reflect the culture of life in it. From this, then munculah type of music that has a diverse and distinctive characteristics. Similarly with karawitan art, art and music is growing and developing in ranah terms with the cultural tradition. Attitudes and life of communities is reflected in guidance from the color of this music, beauty and refinement to music is a form of community-minded nature of adi superb.
Karawitan comes from the word "sauce", which means beautiful, beautiful, complex. So, this means karawitan beauty, keasrian, complexity. The term "karawitan" in the development used to take the music that there is a tradition in the area of the archipelago. In fact, this term is used for the Vocational School of Performing Arts, the School dibukanya Karawitan first conservatory in Solo, Surakarta, Central Java in 1952 (I Wayan Sinti in http://www.endonesa.net/.com, 2007)
Tjokrowasito in Waridi (2006: 139), karawitan interpret as sound art Java incurred from the human voice in harmony slendro-pelog the delicacy of feeling. Slendro pitch is a tone-tone sequence in the suarantaranya one octave (interval) the same or nearly the same. In slendro gamut, octave is divided into five parts with the same distance ¾. While pelog pitch is a tone-tone sequence in a single octave intervalnya that is not the same. Divided into seven tones, only the tone of the seventh five-tone that is often used so that the gamut is still called the gamut pentatonis, for example: d-es-fa-d-SSX. Slendro pitch and not recognize pelog standard tuning (standard tones) as well as on the Western music (diatonis) where the frequency and tone intervalnya already certain.
Karawitan term is now more widely used to mention the various other types of music that has the nature, character, concept, how to work, and / or rules that are similar to music karawitan (tradition), and although the music is not music in Java and also the music or not originating from and / or living in Java (Supanggah, 2002: 5).
"Karawitan is a terminology that is used to call the music produced from the gamelan. "Gamelan" has its own musical instrument consisting of a variety of tools perkusi, which, in general, beaten with a hammer and is used in art music karawitan. Pono Banoe (2003: 158) in the dictionary states that the music, the word "gamelan" comes from the Javanese and Balinese, the word "gamel" which means "time", while the words imply that there is going gamelan or shifting from the development of the word "gembel" which means that the tools to beat (Soedarsono, Ed. 1985: 5).
A gamelan usually consists of a gong, bell, metallofon, drum, flute, musical instrument string, made of bronze, steel, wood, and bamboo, but can also consist of singer-performers. In the Dictionary of Bahasa Indonesia, gamelan means "musical instrument device Java (Sunda, Bali, etc.) which consists of saron, Bonang, xylophone, fiddle, drum, gong" (KBBI, 1999: 228). While Pono Banoe (2003: 158) in the Dictionary of Music "as a means of gamelan music from traditional Javanese of Indonesia and various other. Tools gamelan music played on the various opportunities can be played alone as a musical concert, to accompany showtimes puppets, dance, dance, ritual ceremonies, and party people. Different types of gamelan music usually found among tribes Java, Bali, Sunda and Madura and in the area appear more karawitan art.
Gamelan music is usually ensembel weight metalofon, xylophone, drum, and gong. Gamelan orchestra there are many on the island of Java, Madura, Bali, and Lombok in Indonesia in various sizes and shapes ensembel. In Bali and Lombok today, and in Java through the 18-th century, the term gong is considered a synonym with the gamelan.
Penalaan and the gamelan orchestra is a complex process. Gamelan use four-way penalaan, namely sléndro, pélog, "gamelan" (special area of Sunda, or West Java), and "madenda" (also known as diatonis, the same as the original minor scale is widely used in Europe.
Gamelan is a musical instrument in a puppet show. In Javanese puppet show, musical instrument consists of 15 different types of instruments, mostly made of bronze and various perkusi. Flute, kendang, fiddle, xylophone, and the performance is not a follower perkusi and not made of bronze.
Based on the above description then can be concluded that art is art karawitan vocal or instrumental sound that slendro or pelog the delicacy of feeling. Consists of various musical instrument gamelan musical instruments, namely the type of perkusi and gesek, and in general engineering with the game beaten with a hammer or tabuh. In this research, the arts karawitan is a type of Javanese gamelan and karawitan pelog.

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