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Celempungan

Indonesian music genre

Various hanging Gongs (gong ageng, gong suwukan, kempul) of GamelaninIndonesia
Music of Indonesia
Genres
Classical Kecapi suling Tembang sunda Kecak Pop Indo Hip hop Dangdut Campursari Kroncong Langgam jawa Celempungan Gambang kromong Tanjidor Gambus Jaipongan Pop Sunda Qasidah modern Rock Tapanuli ogong
Specific forms
Angklung Beleganjur Calung Degung Gamelan Gambang Gender Wayang Gong gede Gong kebyar Jegog Joged bumbung Melayu Karinding Kendang Kolintang Kulintang Kuriding Kurung-kurung Salendro Selunding Semar pegulingan Surakarta Gendang beleq Gordang sambilan Saluang Suling Talempong Tarawangsa Tifa totobuang
Regional music
Bali Borneo Java Moluccan Islands Papua Sulawesi Sumatra Sundanese Melayu Minangkabau Bataks Dayaks Ambonese Buginese Acehnese
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Celempungan is a Sundanese musical genre that includes several musical instruments such as kacapi, kendang, goong/gong, and sulingorrebab (optional), and Juru Kawih (singer). Kendang, the drum, controls the tempo of the ensemble and reinforces the meter.

Celempungan is named for the celempung, a bamboo tube zither from West Java.^[1] Celempungan ensembles had their golden era from 1935 to 1945.^[2] In modern celempungan ensembles, the celempung may be replaced by the siter, kacapi, and kendang.^[1] Troupes' musical repertoires include gamelan salendro kliningan.^[3] Dutch ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst described celempungan in his 1973 book Music in Java:

"The chelempung-orchestra (ill. 131) is fortunate in being widely-spread. The name is derived from the idiochord bamboo instruments, which are found in it in two different functions, i.e., as kendang and as ketuk. The other instruments in this combination—another essential element of which seems to be a female voice—are: rebab, suling, goong awi, and—not always, however—a kachapi."^[1]

See also[edit]

• Karinding

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Atmadibrata, Enoch; Danumiharja, Nang Hendi K.; Sunarya, Yuli (2006). Khazanah seni pertunjukan Jawa Barat (in Indonesian). Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata Jawa Barat.
• Julia, J. (2018). Orientasi Estetik Gaya Pirigan Kacapi Indung dalam Kesenian Tembang Sunda Cianjuran di Jawa Barat (in Indonesian). UPI Sumedang Press. ISBN 978-602-6438-17-1.
• Koizumi, Fumio; Tokumaru, Yoshihiko; Yamaguchi, Osamu (1977). Asian Musics in an Asian Perspective: Report of [Asian Traditional Performing Arts 1976]. Heibonsha.
• Spiller, Henry (2004). Gamelan: The Traditional Sounds of Indonesia. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-506-3.

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