FUNGSI DAN TEKNIK PERMAINAN ALAT MUSIK TRADISIONAL MANDAILING UYUP-UYUP DI DESA PARGARUTAN JAE TAPANULI SELATAN

Abstract

This study aims to determine Function, Game Techniques and Organic Uyup-Uyup In Pargarutan
Village Jae Tapanuli Selatan. The purpose of this research is to know the function, game technique
and organology of mandailing uyup-uyup instrument in Pargarutan Jae Tapanuli Selatan Village
community. The theory used is function, game technique and organology. The function of music is
to express the taste and simultaneously as an activity of various types of human communication.
Organology is the study of the structure of musical instruments based on sound sources, how to
produce sounds and system of alignment. Game technique is a way or technique of touch on a
musical instrument over a particular tone according to the instructions or notation. The method
used in this research is qualitative descriptive method. The sample in this research is one artist and
five people of Pargarutan Jae Village. Data collection was done by observation, interview, and
documentation. This research was taken in Pargarutan Jae Village, and this research was carried
out from October 2017. The function of Uyup-uyup music instrument in South Tapanuli there are
three of the first is the function of emotional disclosure is a medium for someone to express feelings
and emotional through the game of uyup-uyup instruments that use systematic way of presenting
the sound. The second is the entertainment function in which the South Tapanuli also need
entertainment that is the entertainment of playing a uyup-uyup instrument at rest in the rice fields.
Third is the Communication Function where when calling the opposite sex across the paddy field
the man repeatedly played uyup-uyup. Organic musical instrument Uyup-uyup consists of five
parts, namely rice stalks, coconut leaves and lidi as a binder of coconut leaves. The game technique
in the uyup-uyup instrument is divided into the first three sections that are played in a sitting /
standing position, the second way of blowing uyup-uyup is by way of the mouth is placed at the
base of the top of the uyup-uyup instrument, the third position of the finger finger, first starting
from the left hand with the beginning of the index finger and the second hole of the middle finger
and then on the right hand begins with the index finger and the hole of both middle fingers.