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MAPEH (Music)

Quarter 1 - Module 1:
Music of Southeast Asia:
Vocal and Instrumental Music

of Indonesia

MAPEH (Music) – Grade 8

Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1 – Module 1: Music of Southeast Asia: Vocal and Instrumental Music of Indonesia

First Edition, 2020

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What I Need to Know

This module was written and designed to make learning easier especially as we are in
the “new normal” situation. As an educational tool, this module about the Vocal and
Instrumental Music of Indonesia challenges you as a learner, to become creative,
resourceful and independent. The scope of the module provides a variety of activities
that will stimulate independent and self-guided learning experience. Lessons in this
module are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course to ensure effective
learning continuity, make the experience more meaningful, effective and relevant to life
situations.

The module includes lessons and activities on:

▪ Musical system of Indonesian music.
▪ Characteristics of the vocal and instrumental music of Indonesia.
▪ Classification and functions of Indonesian musical instruments.
▪ Analyzing Indonesian folk songs using the elements of music

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Identify the musical system of Indonesian music.
2. Analyze the vocal music of Indonesian using Indonesian folk songs.
3. Recognize the musical instruments of Indonesia and its function.
4. Evaluate music performance using rubrics on musical elements and style.

What I Know

Choose the letter of the best answer. Circle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which sound is a musical sound?
A. bomb explosion C. people talking

B. thunder D. mother humming a lullaby
2. How is the banduria classified as an instrument?

A. aerophone C. chordophone
B. membranophone D. idiophone

3. Which of the elements of music is the overall structure of a musical composition?
A. form B. tempo C. timber D. rhythm

4. What are songs traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part

of their culture and tradition? D. harana
A. kundiman B. devotional song C. folk song

5. In what region in the Philippines is melismatic singing more often used?
A. Luzon B. Mindanao C. Visayas D. Mindoro

6. Which of the following items is classified as a percussion instrument?
A. gangsa B. kudyapi C. sahunay D. buktot

7. From where does the shown instrument come from?
A. Mindoro C. Palawa

B. Maguindanao D. Zambales

8. What do you call the speed at which music is played, often indicated on written
composition by a descriptive or metronome mark?

A. Tempo B. pitch C. timbre D. rhythm

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9. Which of the following musical instruments is made up of two bamboo tubes
attached to a bamboo frame?

A. anklung B. bamboo organ C. piccolos D. clarinets

10. From what country does the illustrated instruments widely used?

A. India C. Indonesia
B. Malaysia D. Cambodia

11. How is the Suling classified as an instrument?
A. aerophone B. chordophone C. membranophone D. idiophone

12. Which of the following musical instruments is played by striking using a stick?
A. kudyapi B. kulintang C. gitgit D. kalutang

13. Which of the elements of music is a pattern of beats that is combined to form a
musical rhythm?

A. timbre B. form C. texture D. meter

14. Which of the following catergories of musical instruments produces sound
primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane?

A. chordophone B. aerophone C. idiophone D. membranophone
15. Which of the following instruments is a chordophone?

A. tongatong B. banduria C. gangsa D. gitgit

Lesson Music of Southeast Asia:
Vocal and Instrumental
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Music of Indonesia

Indonesia is an archipelago in Southeast Asia and was influenced by China and India.
This contact helped create the rich mixture of musical style found in Indonesia today.
It has a number of structures including the earliest musical instruments of India. This
results in hundreds of different forms of music, which often accompanies by dance and
theatre. Their music is one of the most ancient in Asia.

What’s In

Activity A. Sing and conduct in triple meter the song “Pilipinas Kong Mahal”. Feel and
follow the flow of its rhythm by clapping the beat of the song.

1. What is the time signature of the song? ________________________________________
2. What kind of notes are used in this song? ______________________________________
3. Identify the mood of the music? ________________________________________________
4. Should the song be sung in a slow manner? Why? ______________________________
5. What do you feel while singing this song? _______________________________________

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Activity B. Look at each picture and give the name and its classification.
1. 2. 3. 4.

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What’s New

Look at the pictures below. Can you guess where in Southeast Asia are these art forms
come from? Can you see any of these art forms here in the Philippines?

What is It

The music of Indonesia demonstrates its cultural diversity and local musical creativity,
Traditional regional musics and songs of Indonesia natively compromises of strong beat
and harmony type musics with strong influence of California and Malay classical
music. The music in Indonesia predates historical records. Various Native
Indonesian tribes often incorporate chants and songs accompanied with musics
instruments in their rituals.

Tuning System:
There are two basic
kinds of Indonesian
music scale

Slendro is made-up of 5 tones while Pelog is made-up of 7 tones but only 5 tones are
usually played. The remaining 2 tones serve as auxiliary notes. Both vocal and
instrumental music in Indonesia use slendro and pelog scales.
Irama is an Indonesian term for tempo. Stratification kind of melody is heard because
they used the common technique in playing gongs called interlocking, an inter
connecting of sounds.

Vocal Forms: The most common interpretation of a musical composition is “singing.”
The term used for a female soloist is Pesindhen, who sings with a gamelan, for a male
unison chorus is Gerong that sings with the gamelan, and for mixed chorus is Berong
Becayan. Both Vocal and Instrumental music have the same importance in the
Indonesian cultures and traditions

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Here is the famous folksong from
Indonesia. Try to learn the song and
conduct it in triple meter.

https://youtu.be/boUiiuFOCcA

English Translation of Burung Kakatua, “The Cockatoo” (Children's Song)

I The cockatoo II. She only has two teeth left
Sits on the window sill, Grandma is already old,
My grandmother is already She sits on the window sill
Like the cockatoo!
old
And she only has two teeth! (Repeat refrain)
Tredung, tredung, tredung tra la
Refrain: la
Tredung, tredung, tredung tra la Tredung, tredung, tredung tra la
la la
Tredung, tredung, tredung tra la Tredung, tredung, tredung tra la
la

Instrumental Ensemble: Gamelan is the Indonesian’s most popular and
well-known form of music. It is their traditional
orchestra. Indonesian music is divided into two
major parts, the Javanese and the Balinese
music. The musical characteristics of Javanese
music is usually used for court ceremonies and
it is more on percussion instruments. In
Balinese, sacred music is used, percussion
instruments are more on metallophones and
gongs with some auxiliary instruments like
cymbals producing a brilliant sound.

Gamelan orchestra include percussion instruments of metalophones, gongs, flutes,
membranophones, and spike fiddles. The number of players ranges from 30 to 50
members. The players sit on the floor barefoot when playing the instruments. The major
functions of gamelan is to perform for traditional occasions and ceremonies.
Instrumental music serves as the accompaniment of their religious activities, rituals,
theatres and dances.

Instruments of Gamelan Ensemble:

1. Saron Peking

Metallophone with 7 bronze bars played
over teakwood frame. Saron plays the

melody or “balungan”.

The saron instruments are played by
striking the bar in its center with the

oval end of the mallet and dampening
the previous bar when the next is

played. The player sits on the side with 4 En wikipedia.org
the pitches ascending to the right.

2. Saron Barung Picture Credit: Dr. Han Kuo-Huan

It has a wooden handle and a wooden Bonang Barung from Javanese
barrel-shaped head. The barrel-shaped Gamelan collections.nmmusd.org
head is detachable from the
handle. This barrel-shaped head is kethuk kempyang page
secured to the wooden handle by a hole seasite.niu.edu
drilled about halfway through. The
mallets used to strike on all Saron Omika- s.grinnell.edu ›
instruments has to be very MusicalInstruments › item
hard. During playing, the player needs
to struck strongly too. gong suwukan · Grinnell College Musical ...
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3. Slenthem

The slenthem is part of the gender
family. It consists of a set of bronze
keys comprising a single octave. The
instrument is played by striking the
keys with a mallet, called a tabuh. It is
a low-pitched instrument with a softer
sound. Slenthem plays the melody.

4. Bonang Barung

A set of pot gongs mounted on a
wooden frame in two parallel rows.
This is one of the most important
instruments in the ensemble, as it
gives many of the cues to other players
in the gamelan.

5. Kempyang

A pair of pot gongs set on wooden
frame. They are important beat-
keepers in the colotomic structure of
the gamelan. The kempyang is pitched
higher about one octave.

6. Kethuk

The Kethuk is a metal gong idiophone.
It is a punctuating instrument that is
part of the Javanese gamelan.
Kempyang is never played without the
Ketuk.

7. Gong Ageng

It is the largest of the bronze gongs. The
gong ageng is considered the most
important instrument in a gamelan
ensemble: the soul or spirit of the
gamelan is said to live in the gong. Gong
ageng are often proffered ritual
offerings of flowers, food, and/or and
incense before performances.

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8. Rebab Rebab, Instrumen Gamelan Jawatimuran ...
jawatimuran.wordpress.co
It is an essential elaborating
instrument, ornamenting the basic
melody. A two-string bowed lute
consisting of a wooden body,
traditionally though now rarely a single
coconut shell, covered with very fine
stretched skin.

9. Suling

A long, thin-walled bamboo tube. The GAMELAN
suling is an elaborating instrument. The storiesaboutindonesia.blogspot.com
suling is an end-blown flute featuring an
internal duct with an external ring
mechanism. It is held vertically in front of
the player.

What’s More

Activity 1. Identify and write the missing names of the notes in Pelog scale.

dhala __ __ __ penung __ barang __ gulu __ __ __ __
__ _ _ __ _ _

Activity 1.1 Find and encircle the musical instruments of the Gamelan Ensemble.
Write the category of each instrument and the way it is played.

B O N AN G B A R U N G
G O N GA G E N G Y F G
I S U LI N G R A R B U
N L O OA W G D R E N F
K E M PY A N G F B D T
G N A YM R F S B A E Y
C T S UB F U C O B S N
B H Q NO S I N E R Y G
K E T HU K A M C T F A
A M V BL Z S I S S D S
S A R ON P E K I N G K

Category – Membranophone, Idiophone, Chordophone, Aerophone, Metallophone
Manner of playing – striking, blowing, plucking

Musical Category Musical Category
Instruments Instruments

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What I Have Learned

♫ There are two basic kinds of Indonesian music scale; Slendro ande Pelog.
♫ The Gamelan orchestra is the most popular form of music in Indonesia. It is used

to accompany songs, dances and shadow puppets and usually performed in courts and
temples during rituals and festivities.
♫ The female soloist is Pesindhen, for a male unison chorus is Gerong, and for mixed
chorus is Berong Becayan.
♫ Both Vocal and Instrumental music have the same importance in the Indonesian cultures
and traditions.

What I Can Do

Group and enumerate the names of the instruments according to their classification.

Aerophone Chordophone Membranophone Idiophone
________________ ________________ ________________ ________________
________________ ________________ ________________ ________________
________________ ________________ ________________ ________________

Assessment

Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Circle the letter of the correct
answer.

1. Who is the female soloist singer in a Gamelan ensemble?

A. berong B. gerong C. pesindhen D. dalang

2. Which Indonesian music scale has 5 tones?

A. pelog B. irama C. karawitan D. slendro

3. Which of the following is an Indonesian folk song?

A. Burung Kakatua B. Loi Loi Grathong C. Chan Mali Chan D. Sakura
4. What Philippine instrument is similar to the Indonesian bonang? D. bunkaka

A. agong B. kulintang C. gangsa

5. Which of the following group of instruments is most common in Southeast Asia?

A. membranophone B. idiophone C. aerophone D. chordophone

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6. Why is gamelan orchestra important to the Indonesians?
A. it is always a part of their religious ceremonies
B. it is believed to possess supernatural powers
C. it is performed in honor of the gods and scholars in the temple
D. it is accompanies the shadow puppet performance called Nang Yai

7. What kind of polyphonic melody is usually heard in gong ensembles?
A. interlocking B. stratification C. irama D. syncretic

8. Which of these instruments does not play the melody or “bulungan?”

A. B. C. D.

9. What made the role of the Dalang in a Wayang Kulit significant?
A. creates suspense through voice modulation
B. it sets the rhythm
C. provides the musical background of the play
D. sits and narrates behind the screen

10. How is suling classified as an instrument?

A. chordophone B. membranophone C. idiophone D. aerophone

11. Which Indonesian music scale has 7 tones?
A. pelog B. slendro C. irama D. karawitan

12. What is the Indonesian term for tempo? C. karawitan
A. gerong B. irama D. mahagita

13. What technique is used in Indonesian gong ensembles?
A. irama B. stratification C. interlocking D. syncretic

14. How is rebab classified as an instrument?
A. aerophone B. chordophone C. membranophone D. idiophone

15. Which of these instruments is not called “colotomic”?

A. B. C. D.

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Additional Activities

Directions: Cut pictures of traditional musical instruments of the Philippines and
Indonesia and classify each according to their category (aerophone, chordophone,
membranophone, and idiophone) and manner of playing (striking, blowing, plucking).

Philippines Indonesia

After doing this activity, what are your insights regarding the instruments of Indonesia
and the Philippines? In what aspects of musicality are they similar? different?
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