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THE HISTORY OF ANGKLUNG


Based on the Balinese mythology, angklung consist of two words, angka  which mean is tone, and lung which mean is broken, incomplete, or gone. Then, angklung could be meant as broken or incomplete tone. By those definitions, arranged that angklung is one of the traditional musical instruments made of Bamboo, and to sound it by shaking the angklung to produce certain tone. But, if we are really consider the history of development of sundanese arts and culture performances, strongly believed that angklung originally invented and developed in West Java, Indonesia.  
In its development, angklung spreaded and reached almost all region in West Java, and being used to enriched the traditional ceremonial in Banten, Baduy, Sukabumi, Cirebon, etc. Angklung has its special functions related to religious and ritual matters. Angklung played to honor the Dewi Sri as the Goddes of Fertility in Indonesian’s ancient believe.
Beside functioned as religious and ritual matters, it also used for the entertainment purposes. In this function, angklung played along with other Sundanese traditional arts and culture, and later known as Angklung Degung, that played as musical background in traditional dancing or traditional plays. And further, developed until Angklung Padaeng that already has diatonic tone scale and it made possible to play in modern musical arrangements.
Angklung, also played in the Royal Ceremony, and used to play to escort the soldiers and warriors before they went to the wars. And then, angklung not played only in the royal functions, but also played in the traditional village functions, to honor the gods and the goddess before the plantations and the harvesting seasons. The region that developed and spreaded angklung are Garut, Tasikmalaya, Ciamis, Sukabumi, etc.
In 1938, Daeng Soetigna the late, modernized the angklung arrangement into diatonic tone scale, so it could be popularized and be known and also could be played many international and popular songs.

The angklung history and development, divided into two diversifications, which are:

1. Traditional Angklung.
    a. Angklung Baduy.
    b. Angklung Buncis.
    c. Angklung Gubrag.
    d. Angklung Bungko.

2. Modern Angklung.
    a. Angklung Padaeng by Daeng Soetigna the late.
    b. Angklung Udjo by Udjo Ngalagena the late.


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