• The people of West Java
• typically used as adjective

• Only major Hindu kigdom in area
• arose after fall of Sumatra's Srivjaya
• did not acknowledge self-proclaimed sovereignty of Majapahit
• Majapahit killed Pajajaran nobles according to poem after they refused to submit to his will
• defeated by Mataram
• stories and poems kept alive in Sudanese music and song

• Islamic kingdom from Central Java
• Took control of Pajajaran in 17th century
• set up kabupatens goverened by bupati
• imported styels and symbols of power from Mataram

• bamboo rattles
• indigenous Sudanese instrument
• used for Pajajaran epic narrative songs

Kacapi

• Zither
• indigenous Sudanese instruments
• played in tembang Sunda/Cianjuran and is closely associated w/Pajajaran
• nostlagic sound for Sudanese

• groups of singers, dancers, and gamelan, players were sent to Chicago to play at world fair
• replica of Sari Oneng Parakansalak gamelan
• played both Central Javanese and Sudanese music

• gained control of Priangan from Mataram in 18th century
• slowed Javanese flow of culture

• maintain indigenous Sudanese music
• 5000 in 45 villages isolated in mountains
• descendants of Pajajaran aristocrats
• dry-rice farming
• guardians of Sudaneses land and tradition
• inner and outer
• play angklung for planting
• outer will play gamelan similar to gamelan salendro during certain events

• Sudanese aristocratic ministers
• in charge of kabupaten
• established by Mataram
• developed styles of music and fashions from Central Java
• flow of ideas between Javanese and Sundanese

• now unified musical genre
• mostly identical to Javanese tunings
• salendro: 5 pitch equidistant, men's dancing, listening music for women singers
• pelog: 7 pitch non-equidistant, for wayang, dhalang wanted to own

• female singers
• preferred gamlean salendro
• more flexibility to sing songs in other Sundanese tunings

• practice of using alternate tuning systems

1. colotomic foundation
2. simplified/abstracted melody
3. elaborated/varied melody
4. drum pattterns that shape phrases, coordinate rhythmic activity, synchronize music w/other activities

combine for a stratified musical texture

• individual pitches
• provide framework for including individual parts

• alternation of saron 1 and saron 2
• rhythms of both sarons interlock together to form one meoldic line

• small pieces
• expan/contract time (wilets) btwn pillar pitches
• can have many different wilets

• great pieces
• have very long gong phrases
• set melodies

• family lineage
• 1 of 3 forces that compel Sudanese individuals to the arts

• tuning of Sundanese gamelan ensemble
• gamelan of the aristocracy and klasik
• adapted for modern pop music
• old term referring to gong and gong ensembles

• degung ensemble's scale
• large and small intervals
• 5-tone scale
• some intervals sound slendro

• smaller ensemble
• only few bronze instruments, suling, drums
• 6 to 7 musicians

• smaller, higher pitched
• shriller
• louder
• 4 finger holes for 5 pitches of pelog

• classical pieces
• core of degung repertory
• composed by Idi and colleagues
• irregulat formal structures
• texture w/simultaneous melodic variations
• stock melodic phrases
• simple drum parts w/sticks

• panambih songs w/degung accompaniment
• imitate gamelan salendro idioms on degung instruments

• maintained Sudanese music ensembles and musicians for local component
• Sudanese language broadcast
• theme music of degung
• "associating sound of degung w/particular Sudanese ethnic identity in national Indonesian context"

• ceremonial event for Sudanese families
• mark significant events in lives
• significant life-cylce events

• rod puppet theater
• begin in evening and last all night
• dalang manipulates puppets, narration and dialogue, cues to gamelan
• carved, 3D puppets
• gamelan integral to performance

• Western inspired songs for gamelan salendro and Sudanese instruments w/diatonic tuning
• felt music should appeal to audience
• traditional and non-traditional means

• Koko Koswara's protege
• hybirds of traditional Sudanese music and popular
• used degung and ban combined w/Western diatonic tuning

• special gamelan
• includes extra keys and gongs
• allow for salendro, pelog, degung and others