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  2. Sundanese music - Wikipedia

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    Sundanese culture, language and music are quite distinct from those of the Javanese people of Central and East Java - although of course there are also elements in common. In Sunda there is a bewildering diversity of musical genres , musical composition and tuning systems are recognizably different.

  3. Sisindiran - Wikipedia

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    Sisindiran (Banten dialect: Susualan, Badui language: Bangbalikan) is a Sundanese poem in which an allusion (sindir) is given by a combination of words which allude to the real meaning by sound association. Sisindiran (susualan) are often found in Sundanese verse: in tembang Sunda they occur mainly in the Panambih Songs. They invariably consist ...

  4. Sundanese people - Wikipedia

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    The Sundanese food is characterised by its freshness; the famous lalab (raw vegetables salad) eaten with sambal (chili paste), and also karedok (peanuts paste) demonstrate the Sundanese fondness for fresh raw vegetables. Similar to other ethnic groups in Indonesia, Sundanese people eat rice for almost every meal. The Sundanese like to say, "If ...

  5. Tembang Sunda - Wikipedia

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    Tembang sunda, also called seni mamaos cianjuran, is a style of classical vocal music that originated in the Priangan highland of western Java.Unlike Sundanese gamelan music, tembang sunda was developed in the court of the regent Kabupaten Cianjur during the Dutch colonial period (mid-nineteenth century).

  6. Sundanese script - Wikipedia

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    The new glyphs have been developed through re-use of letter found in the old Sundanese script. For example, the letters fa and va are variants of Old Sundanese pa; qa and xa are variants of Old Sundanese ka, and za is a variant of Old Sundanese ja. There are two non-standard consonants, kha and sha, used for transcribing the Arabic consonants ...

  7. Kacapi suling - Wikipedia

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    Kacapi suling is a form of Sundanese music from Indonesia. It is essentially tembang Sunda minus vocals, and also at interludes between songs at a typical Tembang Sunda performance. The higher pitched kacapi rincik , the lower pitched kacapi indung and the suling flute are the instruments used for kacapi suling.

  8. Gamelan degung - Wikipedia

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    Gamelan degung is a form of Sundanese musical ensemble that uses a subset of modified gamelan instruments with a particular mode of degung scale. The instruments are manufactured under local conditions in towns in West Java such as Bogor and Bandung. [1]

  9. List of English words of Indonesian origin - Wikipedia

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    Champak from cempaka, derived from ᮎᮙ᮪ᮕᮊ campaka (Sundanese) Gambier from gambir; Gutta percha from getah perca (Indonesian) Kapok from kapuk, the Malay name for the tree Bombax ceiba; Macassar hair preparation, from Makassar, a city in Indonesia [6] Meranti a kind of tropical tree; Merbau a kind of tropical tree; Paddy from padi ...