Musical instrument in Indonesia

Traditional music is music that lives in the community for generations, retained as a means of entertainment that has traditionally developed among certain tribes. The three components that affect each of them are The Artists, the music itself and the public audience. While the intention to unite perception between artists and the community thinking about joint efforts in developing and preserving the art of traditional music. Making traditional musical arts in the community as a repertory of traditional music that touches on the commercial sector more generally. so it does not sink and disappear because of the progress of time and Technologi

This activity is expected to be able to contribute to the participants also to the wider community so that traditional music can serve as entertainment for business entrepreneurs.



Musical instrument in Indonesia are very diverse, this is because many tribes in Indonesia, so that virtually the entire 17,508 islands has its own culture and art. Indonesia has thousands of types of music, sometimes accompanied by dances and performances. The most popular Traditional music is the gamelan and keroncong, while the modern music is pop and dangdut.

Indonesia musical identity began to form when the Bronze Age culture migrated to the archipelago in the third and second centuries BC. Traditional tribal music of Indonesia generally use percussion instruments, especially drums and gongs. Some develop into complex music, and different, such as stringed instruments sasando from Rote Island, angklung from West Java, and the complex music of the gamelan orchestra of Java and Bali.



Art music in Indonesia, both traditional and modern is very much stretched from Sabang to Merauke. Every province in Indonesia have a traditional music with his trademark in itself, There is also a popular music in Indonesia known as dangdut, the music wing of modern Malay-influenced by Indian music, so dangdut music is very different from the actual Malay traditional music.

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