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about the exact thing about the beginning of its appearance, based on the shape calung in West Java consists of four kinds of forms, namely Calung Rantay, Calung Tarawangsa, Calung Gamelan and Calung Jingjing.

Calung art is a karawitan dish in sekar-gending form, which uses sekar (vocal) and gending (instrument) in its presentation. Calung musical instrument is one of the Sundanese musical instruments made of bamboo, but not all types of bamboo can be used as the basic ingredients of making calung, usually blackish-colored bamboo or commonly called awi wulung. The sense of calung according to the General Dictionary of the Sundanese Basa is 'tata tuhan awi guluntungan, aya anu siga gambang aya anu ditiir sarta ditakolannana bari dijingjing' (tetabuhan made of bamboo, some like gambang, some are pinned and beaten while carrying). While the other sense of calung is the performing arts that waditra principally use calung.

Calung's current performing arts have undergone many developments in its presentation and form. At the beginning of its existence calung art functioned as a means of ritual, the ceremony of honor to Dewi Sri on the harvest celebration, but over time, calung performances now shifted function becomes a means of entertainment for the general public. This occurs after the calung changes in the packaging. Responding to the development of art, Soedarsono argues that: '............ .. In this modern technological era the outline of the performing arts function in human life can be grouped into three: 1) as a means of ceremony, 2) as personal entertainment, 3) as a spectacle. Although in history the oldest function of performing arts is for ceremonies, ............... '(Soedarsono 1985: 18).

Pict : Calung Jinjing

After experiencing a period of development in the form and packaging, calung art has given birth to many groups that are well known by the community, including calung UNPAD, calung Ria Buana, calung DAMAS, Layungsari, Glamor calung group, Jebrag and many others. From some of the above calung groups have given birth to vocalists or calung singers who in principle have a vocal color or a distinctive feature in comparison to the type of vocals in Sunda karawitan, such as on kawih, tembang, and so forth. One of the singers of songs calung enough known to the public until now is Hendarso or Darso. The public recognizes the Darso figure well from the typical style of singing songs. Vocal voices accompanied by ornamentations, dress styles and attitudes in singing seem to be a characteristic and familiar to the community. Quoting Yus Wiradiredja's words in Iman Herawandi that: 'The advantages of other groups, Calung Darso has good artistic cultivation, especially the presentation and processing of his voice has not been set aside'. This is reinforced by Ubun Kubarsah's opinion on the same source:

"The Calung Darso Group has a vocal identity from its Hendarso interpreter in singing songs, either own songs or other people's works, unique vocal techniques, simple ornamentation-style songs. So that each song that was delivered both the song itself and the song of another person felt the song has a voice identity Darso "(Herawandi 1997: 6).

It is not known what lies behind Hendarso's performance in singing every song he sings, his voice, how he dresses, whether he 'imitates' the appearance of one of the singers who had been there before, or whether this can be seen as a creativity from a Hendarso. As Guilford puts it in Deni Hermawan on the definition of creativity in the person dimension states: "Creativity refers to the abilities that are characteristic of creative people" (Creativity is defined as the ability that is the nature of the creative person). Or is Darso's creativity formed through an artistic process, referring to Munandar's opinion that states: "Creativity is a process that manifests it self in fluency, in flexibility as well as in the originality of thinking" (Creativity is a process that is reflected in its own smoothness, flexibility also authenticity of thought).

Below this you can download modern calung by Darso :
1. Bentang di Cilampuyang
2. Cucu Deui
3. Dina Amparan Sajadah
4. Duriat
5. Ema
6. Kabogoh Jauh
7. Leuyang
8. Mangkade
9. Maripi
10. Markonah
11. Matak Kabita
12. Mawar Bodas
13. Mega Hideung
14. Mega Sutra Pantai Carita
16. Panganten Anyar
17. Sumerah
18. Taeun
19. Tanjung Baru
20. Ulah Ceurik