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  Kecapi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Kacapi are mid-size box zithers from West Java.
The sound of the kacapi has become quite well known around the world due to the popularity of Sundanese kacapi suling music.
Some contemporary works have demanded the kacapi perform very intricate and rapid solos, and virtuosic techniques for this instrument are still being developed.
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  Kacapi -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The sides of this kind of kacapi is taper inward from top to bottom, which gives the instrument a boat-like shape.
For this purpose, a large kacapi with eighteen strings is used.
For this purpose, a smaller kacapi with fifteen strings is used.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kacapi.htm   (231 words)

  
 kacapi suling
Kacapi are a family of zithers which are to gamelan much as the piano is to the orchestra in Western music.
The kacapi indung is a large boat-shaped zither with 18 brass strings.
silhouette of SULING, KACAPI INDUNG & KACAPI RINCIK
mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /gamelan/page4.html   (273 words)

  
 Kacapi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kacapi is a zither-like Sundanese musical instrument played as the main accompanying instrument in the Tembang Sunda or Kacapi Suling genre, or an additional instrument in Gamelan Degung performance.
They can be tuned in different system: pelog, sorog/madenda, or slendro.
Kacapi rincik riches the accompaniment by filling in inter note spaces with higher frequencies, especially in fixed metered songs like in Kacapi Suling or Sekar Panambih.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kacapi   (274 words)

  
 Kacapi Suling & Kawih | Sabilulungan
Kacapi Suling is usually played at interludes between songs in a performance of the classical song-form Tembang Sunda.
There is a higher-pitched kacapi rincik, a lower-pitched kacapi indung and the suling ornamenting the melody.
Manawi kapayun ngersakeun ngahaleuangkuen tembang anu dipirig ku kacapi suling
www.sabilulungan.org /?q=KacapiSuling   (427 words)

  
 Tembang Sunda Cianjuran
The accompanying ensemble consists of the kacapi indung (a large eighteen-string zither), one or two kacapi rincik (a smaller fifteen-string zither), suling (bamboo flute), and occasionally a rebab (two-string bowed lute).
The sides of the kacapi indung taper inward from top to bottom, which gives the instrument a boat-like shape; in fact, it is sometimes called a boat kacapi (kacapi parahu).
Mamaos are accompanied by the kacapi indung and the suling.
members.tripod.com /pasundan/musiccianjur.htm   (1349 words)

  
 Ford Foundation Report
"Among the major forms of entertainment in Bugis rural villages and small towns is a performance by professional kacapi players-two, three or four male singers accompanying themselves on two-stringed plucked lutes...
Seated throughout, with his hands busy on the kacapi, he has no opportunity to imitate dance moves or stagy gestures.
Partly it lies in the incongruity-glamorous television and recording stars from the big cities summoned to a bamboo platform at a village crossroads; the electric guitar, indeed the whole dangdut band, reproduced on a two-stringed lute.
www.fordfound.org /publications/ff_report/view_ff_report_detail.cfm?report_index=228   (1346 words)

  
 Kacapi - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
According to its form or physical appearance, there are two kinds of kacapis: #Kacapi Parahu (=Boat Kacapi) or Kacapi Gelung ; and #Kacapi Siter Kacapi Parahu is a resonance box with uncovered underside to allow the sound out.
According to its functions in a music accompaniment, kacapi is played as: #Kacapi Indung (=mother kacapi); and #Kacapi Anak (=child kacapi) or Kacapi Rincik Kacapi indung leads the accompaniment by giving intros, bridges, and interludes, as well as determining the tempo.
Kacapi rincik riches the accompaniment by filling in inter note spaces with higher frequencies, especially in fixed metered songs like in Kacapi_Suling or Sekar_Panambih.
www.indexsuche.com /Kacapi.html   (298 words)

  
 Sundanese Music: CDs
The most famous form of Sundanese classical music is the tembang, a set of songs accompanied by two kacapis (zithers), suling (bamboo flute) and ocasionally a rebab (two-stringed violin).
Ensemble Linkungan Seni Malati Ida - Bandung: Ida Widawati, (vocals and cond.), Neneng Dinar (vocals), Rukruk Rukmana (kacapi indung), Iwan Mulyana (suling), Adjat Sudrajat (vocals and kacapi rincik)
Two or three kacapis (lying zithers like the Chinese pipa or the Japanese koto) form a background of base notes and patterns above, on top of which the suling (bamboo recorder) hovers freely.
www.xs4all.nl /~gjvo/gamelan/SundaCD.html   (1338 words)

  
 Smithsonian Folkways at cdRoots
Among the instruments are the kacapi (a two-stringed, plucked lute), gambus (a plucked lute probably originating in Arabia), mandaliong (a keyed zither), and the violin.
This album presents professional narrative and lyric singing with kacapi from the Bugis, Makasar, and Mandar peoples, along with informal, private singing with kacapi from the Toraja and driving Bugis and Kajang instrumental tunes.
And as contrast to the plucked lutes, the album offers, from the Bugis, mysterious violin duets, a violin trio with singers, and a lively ensemble of violins, mandaliong, flute, kacapi, and singers.
www.cdroots.com /smithsonian.shtml   (2136 words)

  
 Webjay - "Bay of Bengal" by OddioKatya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Kacapi Suling - Arum Bandung - 05 - Gawil
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Kacapi Suling - Arum Bandung - 07 - Bungur
webjay.org /by/OddioKatya/bengal   (350 words)

  
 Kacapi - TheBestLinks.com - Zither, Pelog, Slendro, Gamelan Degung, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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 Encyclopedia: Music of Indonesia
First known as an aristocratic art, Cianjuran composer was R.A.A Kusumahningrat (Dalem Pancaniti) ruler of Cianjur (1834 - 1862).
the instrument of Cianjuran is Kacapi Indung, Kacapi rincik and suling or bamboo flute and Rebab for Salendro composition.
The lyrics are typically sung in free verse, but a more modern version, panambih, is metrical.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-Indonesia   (3134 words)

  
 Traditional Indonesian Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Centered on the city of Bandung, this renewed vitality led to the nation-wide popularity of traditional genres like Kacapi Suling and modern ones like jaipongan.
The term refers to the two plucked string instruments and the flute.
There is a higher-pitched kacapi rincik, a lower-pitched kacapi indung and the suling ornamenting the melody.
www.archlab.tuwien.ac.at /~cwirawan/Music   (383 words)

  
 Webjay - Kacapi Suling - Arum Bandung - 08 - Sinyur
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www.webjay.org /iteminfo/526032/ce37f97eee9e83b01c10d50a14195cb3   (69 words)

  
 Gamelan Music: Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Evergreen Club contemporary gamelan is dedicated to the development of contemporary music for gamelan as well as the study and performance of Indonesian music in the Sundanese degung tradition.
Evergreen Club's gamelan is a collection of Indonesian instruments including bronze and wooden percussion instruments - nipple gongs, metalophones, xylophone, and hand drums - bamboo flute, and a 20-string plucked zither, the kacapi.
Expressing a wide range of virtuosity in blending plucked strings from around the world with Indonesian gamelan instruments, Evergreen Club imaginatively transports the listener to new worlds of sound and sensation.
www.deepdownproductions.com /artists/evergreen.shtml   (541 words)

  
 BALAM - Dance Theatre
BALAM will feature the premieres: The Haunting of Lady Macbeth with guest artist; actor, Judith Robinson, Kacapi with music by Lisa Karrer, and Bali-Bolero performed live by Gamelan Son of Lion, as well as BALAM repertoire favorites: Ramayana-Abduction of Sita, Tigerlily and the Dragonfly, Eden, and Hanuman the Monkey King.
Kacapi – (premiere) an ethereal masked solo inspired by a poem by Sitor Situmorang with music by Lisa Karrer.
Bali-Bolero – (premiere) a celebratory ensemble work that incorporates the sun salutation from yoga with Ravel’s bolero melody interpreted by live gamelan.
www.balamdance.org /news.html   (426 words)

  
 Cctv System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
They can be tuned in different system: pelog, sorog/madenda, or salendro.
Functions According to its functions in a music accompaniment, kacapi is played as: Kacapi Indung (=mother kacapi); and Kacapi Anak (=child kacapi) or Kacapi Rincik Kacapi indung leads the accompaniment by giving intros, bridge
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