Kulintang or Kolintang

Kulintang
Traditional musical instruments from Indonesia

Kulintang also Kolintang, Kulintangan, Totobuang is a percussion instrument that belongs to the idiophones and consists of small, horizontally lined up humpback gong. During this decisive carry the melodies of the songs, they are accompanied by larger, hanging gongs and drums. As part of a widespread gong and chimes culture in Southeast Asia Kulintang music groups play for centuries in the regions of the eastern Indonesian archipelago, in the areas of the southern Philippines, eastern India, as well as in East Malaysia, Brunei and Timor an important role .
Kolintang
The Kulintang originally developed from a simple local custom of the signal transmission. Reached its present form this music form by adding the sounds of gongs clunky that you took from the culture of the Sunda Islands and the instruments merged into a musical group. The relationship that exists between this form of music and the various indigenous cultures, is very pronounced and extends further back than the influence of Islam, Christianity or the Western world.
Basically Kulintang is a term people from Maguindanao, Ternate and Timor, which is used for several idiophones gong kettles which horizontally in a row on a board are to form a complete set Kulintang. It elicits from his instrument sounds by striking with two wooden mallets on the hump on the head of the gongs.
The spread of Kulintang expands across different linguistic and ethnic groupings. Thus, instead of the term Kulintang the Maranao and the designation used Kolintang Sulawesi, the peoples of Sabah and the Sulu Archipelago, however use the term Kulintangan while living in Germany at the Moluccas, the name is familiar Totobuang.
In the 20th Century extended the term Kulintang and became a term for a complete ensemble of Maguindanao, is composed of five or six instruments. Usually, such as basal or Palabunibuyan music group is called. The latter name refers to "music", "an ensemble of loud instruments" or in this case and "make music with a Kulintang."

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Kolintang Performance 

3 comments:

Unknown said...

i just know kolintang.thank u.
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faisal muchtar said...

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Andi Syam said...

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