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Kulintang Instrumentalists
Kulintang ( id, kolintang, ms, kulintangan) is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums. As part of the larger gong-chime culture of Southeast Asia, kulintang music ensembles have been playing for many centuries in regions of the Regions of Indonesia#Eastern Indonesia, Eastern Indonesia, Mindanao, Southern Philippines, East Malaysia, Eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Timor, Kulintang evolved from a simple native signaling tradition, and developed into its present form with the incorporation of knobbed gongs from Sundanese people in Java Island, Indonesia. Its importance stems from its association with the indigenous cultures that inhabited these islands prior to the influences of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity or Western world, the West, making Kulintang the most developed tradition of Southeast Asian archaic gong-chime ensembles. Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tifa Totobuang
A ''tifa totobuang'' is a music ensemble from the Maluku Islands, related to the ''kulintang'' orchestra. It consists of a set of a double row of gong chimes known as the ''totobuang'' (similar to set of '' bonang gong chimes'') and a set of '' tifa'' drums. It can also include a large gong. The name comes from the instruments' collaboration. The ensemble can accompany the Maluku Island's Sawat Lenso dance. The custom dates back at least to the late 17th or early 18th century. Gong-chime and drum ensembles, labeled ''tifa totobuang'', were mentioned by François Valentijn, a Dutch army cleric who served in the Dutch army in Ambon, Maluku in two tours, 1686-1994 and 1703-1713. Valentijn talked about hearing "some Javanese lasses sing to the sound of a gong and a tifa (i.e. drum) and of a native zither...a large number of gongs and tifas." Instruments Tifa The tifa drums used for the tifa totobuang have been classed into five sizes. These include, from smallest to largest: *tif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
