In the art of musical
creation functions can be grouped into two pure karawitan and karawitan
functional
- Pure karawitan
In the arts, including art of Javanese
musicians attached to the purpose or intent of its creator. The purpose of
course must be able to telecommunications to others.Communication between the
creator or presenter with penontonya is called appreciation activities. in
presenting the musical arts, especially songs have now (which is served with
the singing) there are elements of language that implied in the rumpaka or
Geguritan song. Thus the purpose of works of karawitan art, for the lay
audience can be easily understood by looking at the rumpaka.
Similarly, the ways in which artists
present works of art, some use the power of musical art as a whole and some are
using other media in addition to karawitan art. Connections with the matter, on a purely musical karawitan art have three
functions, namely the function of soul expression, appreciation and
entertainment
- Karawitan functional
Musical art can be said to be functional if
the intent or the presentation of musical art that is not entirely for the
benefit of musical art. In a sense
there are other functions besides the function of the presentation of karawitan
art itself. Judging from the function, there are
three elements as a companion, social and commercial.
The term gamelan although we often hear the
term but have not become widely known. Unlike the art of sound that has been widely
known. Though these two terms have the same sense.
Some opinions about the origin of
musicians, among others, the following
- Derived from the word pepper, chili size, type the name
of a small, bright red color is the spicy taste. In this case the
musicians interpreted something unique, beautiful and useful
- 2. The word pepper and its pronunciation is similar to the
word complicated in this case musicians interpreted as a complicated
branch of science and covers various aspects of life
The types of gamelan
- Gamelan dressing
Gamelan is a kind of danger is generally
made of iron from the iron plate to saron and gongs are made from the oil
drums.
- Gamelan gadhon
An arrangement of gamelan instruments which
are played incomplete, instrumenya consists of drums, ciblon, gender, barung,
fiddle, xylophone and gong kemodhong.There are times when using distilled
- Gamelan gedhe
Gedhe gamelan Gamelan is a complete composition. This
term generally to refer to gamelan is made of bronze. Gamelan gedhe
consists of two tones of slendro and pelog
- Gamelan klenengan
Arrangement similar to the arrangement of
gamelan gedhe.
- Gamelan krumpyung
Gamelan is a set of gamelan krumpyung
originally instrumenya at bat of the bamboo.Gamelan this kind are found in the
area of Wates Yogyakarta Indonesia
- Gamelan brass
This type of gamelan danger made of brass,
generally from a thick pipe kunungan ¼ cm
- Gamelan senggaden
Senggaden the gamelan Gamelan
shaped into small, kenong, kempul, gongs, bonang all direnteng.
- Gamelan wayangan
