Malaysian music for Southeast asian music learning

1. MALAYSIAN MUSIC

3. Malay music and performing arts:
influences from ICTI

4. Musical Categories:
• Classical Folk Music-
Emerged from pre-colonial period and still
exists in the form of vocal, dance and
theatrical music.
• Syncretic or Acculturated music:
Developed during post Portuguese period.
It contains both local and foreign music
elements like Western and theatrical
sources.

5. • agung
• kulintang

6. 1. KERTOK Ensemble:
• a type of musical ensemble consists of
xylophones
• Single slabs of wood are placed over
coconut shell resonators and struck by
wood mallets.
Musical Forms and Ensembles

8. 2. Dikir Barat
• Lyrical debate
• “a duel of wits”
• address social issues, legal matters,
politics, government regulations,
• tukang karut (leader) makes up and
sings lyrics on the topic of the
performance

10. 3. Zapin
• a dance form that is popular
in Indonesia and Malaysia
• It is believed to have been introduced
by Arab and Muslim missionaries from
the Middle East in the fourteenth
century.

12. 4. Bangsawan
• A type of traditional Malay Opera
• It was known to have developed
from a sort of Indian theatre
performance during the 19th
century by visiting Indian travelers.
• nobleman

14. 5. Ronggeng
a type of Javanese dance in which couples
exchange poetic verses as they dance to
the music of a rebab or violin and a gong.

15. 6. Sila't Milayu
• form of martial arts similar to Ta'i Chi.
• It originates from Malay Peninsula since the
Christian Era.
• Sila't Milayu is a mixture of martial arts,
dance and music usually accompanied by
Gongs, Drums and Indian Oboes.