| dc.description.abstract | The Rhythm of Birds is a programmatic musical composition inspired by the composer's
interaction with the environment at Tanjung Malim. The cultural life of urban communities around
Tanjung Malim is an important source of inluence for this work, as is the composer’s background
and his experience while living in Tanjung Malim. The musical idea is taken from the singing of the
tual bird and the hill-bird from the aboriginal people’s musical tradition. This musical composition
narrates about urban culture, which is interpreted by the music in a programmatic way. The main
purpose of this research is to create further new musical compositions. Another one of its goals
is the ixation of a programmatic musical form inspired from the surroundings of Tanjung Malim
which may be used by other composers.
The article about this musical composition was written with the use of qualitative, practicebased,
practice-led
and
ethnographic
methods.
The
process
of
composing
musical
works
with
the
aid of performing analysis of data applying to traditional music taken from the results
of folk music expedition ieldwork, combined with notated data is subsequently processed
into a laboratory. This results in the creation of a programmatic musical composition in three
movements inspired by Tanjung Malim cultural environment expressed by an urban society,
the composer’s background and life experience. These three movements express the respective
times of day – morning, day and night – at the same time, expressing the activities of Tanjung
Malim’s society.
This musical composition is created with the application of cross-cultural elements combining
Western music and the music of the indigenous people of the region. The musical instruments
incorporated are a mixture of Western music and the areal traditions, where the aboriginal musical
instruments are blended into the musical work, producing harmonies intrinsic to Western music.
The ability to link ideas to a musical concept generates a new type research which can be studied
and applied by musicians, practitioners, and educators around the world. | en_US |
