Celempungan Explained

Celempungan is a Sundanese musical genre that includes several musical instruments such as kacapi, kendang, goong/gong, and suling or rebab (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. Celempungan ensembles had their golden era from 1935 to 1945.^[1] In modern celempungan ensembles, the celempung may be replaced by the siter, kacapi, and kendang. Troupes' musical repertoires include gamelan salendro kliningan.^[2] Dutch ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst described celempungan in his 1973 book Music in Java:

See also

• Karinding

Further reading

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Koizumi . Fumio . Tokumaru . Yoshihiko . Yamaguchi . Osamu . Asian Musics in an Asian Perspective: Report of [Asian Traditional Performing Arts 1976] ]. 1977 . Heibonsha . en. 32.
2. Book: Spiller . Henry . Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia . 2010 . Routledge . 978-1-135-90190-5 . 246 . en.