The Sarawak ‘tar’ for hadrah performance
This work was conducted using the PicoScope signal extraction procedure, which revealed remarkable insights regarding the belian wood and its application in Sarawak traditional ‘tar’ instrument. The ‘tar’ is a small drum made of wood and attached with goat skin. A hadrah performance is done with the...
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| author | Sinin, Aaliyawani E. Hamdan, Sinin Mohamad Said, Khairul A. Sawawi, Marini Tan, Gladys Jia Jia Hipni, Mohammad Jasni |
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| description | This work was conducted using the PicoScope signal extraction procedure, which revealed remarkable insights regarding the belian wood and its application in Sarawak traditional ‘tar’ instrument. The ‘tar’ is a small drum made of wood and attached with goat skin. A hadrah performance is done with the sound of the blow of the ‘tar’ and reciting poems praising Allah and the Prophet Muhammad by a group of players called the hadrah group. The ‘tar’ from belian wood had the highest pitch at 180 Hz i.e., F3# compared with the ‘tar’ from menggeris wood, which had the pitch D3# and A2 that also highlighted their importance in the Western scale. The overtones are not integer multiples of the fundamental frequency except for second and third overtones from ‘tar’ C (F2/F0 = 3 and F3/F0 = 4). Using Adobe Audition for Time Frequency Analysis (TFA) recordings for the ‘tar’, the data collection method provided insightful information. The communal efforts of practitioners, who are frequently grouped together, perpetuate the cultural heritage of hadrah. Essentially, by offering a thorough grasp of the intricate melodic details woven in hadrah’s cultural fabric, this research adds to the genre’s continuing heritage. |
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| spelling | upm-1180532025-06-23T07:24:32Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/118053/ The Sarawak ‘tar’ for hadrah performance Sinin, Aaliyawani E. Hamdan, Sinin Mohamad Said, Khairul A. Sawawi, Marini Tan, Gladys Jia Jia Hipni, Mohammad Jasni This work was conducted using the PicoScope signal extraction procedure, which revealed remarkable insights regarding the belian wood and its application in Sarawak traditional ‘tar’ instrument. The ‘tar’ is a small drum made of wood and attached with goat skin. A hadrah performance is done with the sound of the blow of the ‘tar’ and reciting poems praising Allah and the Prophet Muhammad by a group of players called the hadrah group. The ‘tar’ from belian wood had the highest pitch at 180 Hz i.e., F3# compared with the ‘tar’ from menggeris wood, which had the pitch D3# and A2 that also highlighted their importance in the Western scale. The overtones are not integer multiples of the fundamental frequency except for second and third overtones from ‘tar’ C (F2/F0 = 3 and F3/F0 = 4). Using Adobe Audition for Time Frequency Analysis (TFA) recordings for the ‘tar’, the data collection method provided insightful information. The communal efforts of practitioners, who are frequently grouped together, perpetuate the cultural heritage of hadrah. Essentially, by offering a thorough grasp of the intricate melodic details woven in hadrah’s cultural fabric, this research adds to the genre’s continuing heritage. North Carolina State University 2024-06-19 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/118053/1/118053.pdf Sinin, Aaliyawani E. and Hamdan, Sinin and Mohamad Said, Khairul A. and Sawawi, Marini and Tan, Gladys Jia Jia and Hipni, Mohammad Jasni (2024) The Sarawak ‘tar’ for hadrah performance. BioResources, 19 (3). pp. 5288-5299. ISSN 1930-2126 https://bioresources.cnr.ncsu.edu/resources/the-sarawak-tar-for-hadrah-performance/ 10.15376/biores.19.3.5288-5299 |
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