Pola-pola Dasar KacapiPamirig Kawih

Basic Kacapi Keyings for Kawih Accompaniment

part A

By: Dian Tresna NugrahaMünchen, 23.08.2003

Introduction

Kawih = Sundanese term for ‘song’ Kacapi siter is used for our purpose. It has 20

strings. Farthest string (lowest frequency) is tuned to 3 and nearest string (highest frequency) is tuned to 4. (scroll to some more slides to see it’s picture)

Suling Sunda is 6 holed bamboo flute.

Pangkat is ‘the opening’ or start of kawih. It is selected based on the goong key (number in circle).

Pancer is intermediate tone between two keys, e.g. between goong key and kenong key.

Panutup is ‘the ending’. (or ‘suwuk’ in Javanese)

60 cm

Notation

Note range, from lowest frequency to highest frequency is: 8838281 trewq 54321 %

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Degung notation is used. 1 (da), 2 (mi), 3(na), 4(ti), and

5(la) It is a subset of pelog 7 tone

system (see table 1).

Sundanese Degung

Javanese Pelog

1 (da) 6

2 (mi) 5

3 (na) 3

4 (ti) 2

5 (la) 1

Tuning

Kacapi is tuned to match the suling tones. Suling tones are fixed to its length in 60 cm length. With this length, approximation for the tuning is

t r e w q A# B c# f f#

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5 (la)

left pointerleft thumb

32 1 5 5 g5 . 3 . Gnn. . . . g5 _

4

1

3

4 5

1

right pointerright thumb

pangkat I II Pangkat for key-5 is: 32 1 5 5 g5 I and II are repeatable parts. The sample music plays pangkat

continued directly with I and then after slight silent, II is played. 2-nd pancer is not yet unknown due to unknown kenong key.

Kacapi5.mp3

kenongpancer pancer

4 (ti)31 2 4 4 g4 . 3 . G. . . . g4 _

4

1

3

4 5

1

pangkat

5 (la) positions Pangkat for key-4 is .31 2 4 4 g4 Dashed circles are positions in key-5. Similar to key-5, I and II are repeatable parts.

I II

Kacapi4.mp3

pancer

3 (na) . . 2 . G. . . . g3 _

4

1

3

4 5

1

I II Due to rarely be used as goong key, the

key-3 might have no pangkat at all. Pancer for key 3 is 2.

5 (la) positions

Kacapi3.mp3

pancer

2 (mi)54 3 w w w gw . q . Gn. . . . gw _

4

1

3

4 5

1

pangkat I II

5 (la) positions

Kacapi2.mp3

pancer

1 (da)53 4 q q q gq . q . G. . . . gq _

4

1

3

4 5

1

pangkat I II

5 (la) positions

Kacapi1.mp3

pancer

Pangkat variations for 5 (la)

left pointerleft thumb

22 33 22 3 5 5 5 g5

4

1

3

4 5

1

right pointerright thumb

Variant I

22 33 22 345 5 5 5 g5

Variant IIkacapiPangkat5Var1.mp3 kacapiPangkat5Var2.mp3

Pangkat variations for 2 (mi)4

1

3 4

5 1

left pointerleft thumbright pointerright thumb

3 4 5 5 3 4 5 2 2 2 g2

Variant I

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Variant II

kacapiPangkat2Var1.mp3kacapiPangkat2Var2.mp3

Sekar Alit

Sekar Alit is a small accompaniment set for typical Sundanese songs (kawih). contains several key sequences, and played repeatedly. might have specific name, e.g. Catrik, Kulu-kulu, etc.

There are two types, two keyed and four keyed. The two keyed:

Name Keys Kawih example(s)

Catrik 2 g5 Dareuda, Kalangkang

Kulu-kulu 5 g2 Angin Priangan, Satia

Lalayaran 3 g5

Sekar Alit (continued)

Name Keys Kawih example(s)

Cirebonan 4 5 1 g2 Jeruk manis

Balenderan 4 5 4 g2

n.n. 1 3 1 g4 Nimang

n.n. 2 4 2 g5 Cinta

n.n. 3 4 3 g1 Elekesekeng

In the case name is unknown (n.n. = no name), Sekar Alit is mentioned by it’s keys, e.g. one singer might ask you, “Please play 2 4 2 5!”

The four keyed:

Catrik : 2 g532 1 5 5 5 g5 . 3 . Gw . 1 . g5 _

4

1

3

4 5

1

pangkat 5-I 5-II

Catrik in ancient language means ‘to study’. Indeed, it’s the simplest form and the most widely used pattern when one starts learning Degung.

The goong key is 5, thus we use pangkat for 5 and ending for 5. Kenong key is filled with 2.

2-I2-II

kacapiCatrik25.mp3

end of slide ;)