MEANING OF MUSIC
Music is one medium of art expression, music reflects the cultural community supporters. In the music contained values and norms that are part of the process of enculturation culture, whether in the form of formal or informal. Music itself has a distinctive shape, both from the structural and type in culture. The same thing happened to music in the Malay culture.
Music includes the oldest human art. It could even be said, there is no history of human civilization passed without music, including the history of Malay civilization. In Malay society, the art of music is divided into vocal music, instrumental, and a combination of both. In the combined music, sound accompaniment instrument serves as vocal or dance. Musical instruments developed in the Malay community include: cymbals, tetawak, nobat, trumpet, improbable, kompang, harp, marwas, drums, tambourine, flute, fiddle, drum, gong, flute, harp, violin and accordion. Musical instruments in the rhythm and melody of its own produce different with other musical instruments.
