Price/Harga: RM30 /
Rupiah 70,000.
June 2007 Publisher/Penerbit : Areca Books, Penang, Malaysia.
Soft Cover, 16.5 x 24 cm, 202 pages/hlm.
ISBN 978-983-42834-4-5

An ethnomusicology study in Bahasa Malaysia/Indonesia on Mandailing courtship music.

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Reviews & Press

The New Straits Times
Sunday, 3 February 2008
"Fluting of Love"
by Himanshu Bhatt

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Comments by
Professor Margaret Kartomi

Congratulations on the publication of your book on the Mandailing tulila. It is an interesting, well-crafted study…based on close organological observation and musical transcription.

Professor Margaret Kartomi, a specialist on the ethnomusicology of Indonesia and Southeast Asia, and the world authority on the music of Sumatra at the Arts Faculty, Monash University, Australia.

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Tanggapan dari Tano Batak

… aku sekilas sudah membaca buku, “Tulila - Muzik Bujukan Mandailing” yang ditulis oleh Edi Nasution buah tangan dari lae SM. Nainggolan kala pulang kandang minggu lalu. Buku ini cukup baik sebagai acuan dalam pendokumentasian alat-alat musik Batak lainnya. Buku itu cukup fokus dan dilengkapi dengan cara pembuatan, cara memainkan, notasi nada, repertoar, arti filosofis, dll..

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http://tanobatak.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/seniman-dari-ronggur-ni-huta/

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TULILA: MUZIK BUJUKAN MANDAILING
Author/Pengarang: Edi Nasution

An ethnomusicology study in Bahasa Malaysia/Indonesia on Mandailing courtship music.

'Tulila', muzik bujukan Mandailing bagi memikat hati pacar dalam tradisi /markusip/. Sekalipun si anak gadis dipingit di bagas podoman bawah asuhan wanita tua yang disegani, si teruna tekun melamar dengan kehandalannya meniup seruling bambu. Berselang-seli dengan ende-ende atau pantun, muzik tulila diperdengarkan. Begitulah asmara dipadukan antara teruna dan gadis yang saling mengungkapkan isi hati sebelum fajar menyinsing.

Sekali membicarakan kesenian Mandailing, buku ini merangkul budaya, bahasa, cara hidup, adat istiadat, kepercayaan kuno, aturan
kemasyarakatan, pengetahuan setempat, lingkungan dan pola pemukiman di dataran tinggi Sumatra.

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'Tulila', Mandaiing courtship music to woo a lover's heart, in the
tradition of /markusip/. While the maiden is cloistered in the /bagas
podoman/ under the tutelage of a respected elderly woman, the youth
keenly romances her with his skillful playing of the bamboo flute.
Alternating with verse or /ende-ende/, /tulila/ music is heard. And so
the passion is fanned between youth and maiden, who reveal the secrets of their hearts before the breaking of dawn.

While examining the Mandailing arts, the books describes Mandailing culture, language, lifestyles, customs, ancient beliefs, social order, indigenous knowledge, environment and settlement patterns in the Sumatran highlands.