Summary: | This study, entitled The Meaning tifain traditional dance music
in the Sentani Lake Sentani Festival in 2010 in Jayapura district. The
study departs from various tradition growing cultural phenomenon in
Papua, especially in the area of Jayapura Sentani district. Jayapura
district last few years have enthusiasm to continue to preserve the
existence of cultural traditions. Preserve passion for culture is
reflected in the tradition of one of them held the Lake Sentani Festival
that has been started since 2008. In the Sentani Lake Sentani
Festival is clearly seen how excited the community together to support
cultural preservation. Tifa is an instrument that is always present in
the tradition of events including the tifaare also critical issues related
to Sentani Lake Sentani Festival. From the above it can be seen that
the tifa has an important place in Sentani culture, including the
Sentani Lake Sentani Festival.
In this study uses a qualitative approach with a
multidisciplinary approach, with the main approaches in the field of
ethnomusicology and anthropology. The purpose of this study was to
determine the significance of the presence of tifa in the Sentani Lake
Sentani Festival and how to describe tifa ensemble music in the form
of analysis in which patterns include rhythm, meter, tempo and
melody.
The results of this study are that (1) the presence of tifa
becomes very important, because the presence of tifa showing the
greatness of anondofolo/ondoafi, although each village has a different
legend about the tifa. (2) that the presence of tifa becomes important
because the tifaisa symbol of village identity. (3) although the dances
from each village were impressed equal and monotonous, but differ
between the village with one village to another, so that the
presentation could not be done simultaneously, but alternately or
sequentially. (4) success in the Sentani Lake Sentani Festival is
determined by the number of dance groups taking part in the show on
the Sentani Lake Sentani Festival .
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