KONSEP EMBAT DALAM KARAWITAN JAWA

Embat is one of the musical concept in Javanese gamelan music karawitan Jawa. It is a kind of musical characteristic of a gamelan ensamble which is generated by its interval structure Jv. jangkah of that gamelan. The only way to understand embat, one may investigate gamelan tuning system. Embat had been metioned in old Javanese manuscripts including Centhini and Wedhapradangga. Kunst and Hood also discussed mbat in some extend, but the result does not quite fit to reality. This work aims to explain the concept of embat from the angle of the culture owner Javanese.In order to explain the concept, this study has firstly to discover the concept of pitch in karawitan Jawa, secondly the tolerance of the limit in sifting tones , and finally approaching the main goal: the concept of embat it self. To reach the goal this studi conducted some simple experiments