Indonesia Music

3 Indonesia Music

Music in Indonesia is very diverse, this is because the tribes in Indonesia are manifold, so that virtually the entire 17,508 islands has its own culture and art. Indonesia has thousands of different kinds of music, sometimes followed by dances and performances. The traditional music of the most popular is the gamelan and kroncong, while modern music is pop and dangdut.

 1. Gamelan Orchestra

Gamelan Orchestra

 

One of the best known forms of music is gamelan, the music is played by a few people along the percussion instruments, such as metallophones, gongs and fiddle with the bamboo flute. Performances such as this is common in countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia, but Gamelan comes from the island of Java, Bali and Lombok.

2. Kroncong

Kroncong

 

Kroncong formed since the Portuguese Portuguese entering Indonesia, which also carries the European musical instruments. At the beginning of the 1900s, music is considered a low-quality music. This changed in 1930, when the Indonesian film industry began to join the keroncong music, and began to prevail over the next decade, when the music is connected to perjuangaan independence.

One of the most famous song is kroncong Solo (song) '' Solo ', written in 1940 by Gesang Martohartono, a musician from SurakartaSolo. The song was written when the Imperial Japanese Army controlled the island of Java during World War II, the song (about the Solo River, the longest and most important river in Java) became popular among the Javanese, and famous across Indonesia when it began to be heard on the radio. The song was also popular among the Japanese army, so that when they returned to Japan after the war, many Japanese singers sing the song and make it as a '' best-seller ''.

3. Dangdut

Rhoma Irama king of Dangdut

 

Dangdut is a popular form of dance music since the 1970s. Is famous dangdut singer Rhoma Irama and Elvy Sukaesih, as well as Inul, Evie Tamala, Mansour S., A. Rafiq, and Fahmy Shahab. The music is also well known in Malaysia as a symbol of the Malay race (but not part of Malay culture).

Well, for you yourself happier kind of music which, lest there is not favored well, coz the nation's children must love the hallmark of the nation, such as music, culture, and others.