Erwin Purba.
Mauly Purba.
Vannesia.
Junita Batubara*.
Torang Naiborhu Saxophone in the Toba Batak Traditional Wedding Ceremony in Medan: Harmony of Tradition and Modernity Erwin Purba1.
Mauly Purba2.
Vannesia3.
Junita Batubara4*.
Torang Naiborhu5
1,2,3, 5
Program Studi Penciptaan dan Pengkajian Seni.
Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Sumatra Utara.
Indonesia Universitas HKBP Nomensen.
Medan.
Indonesia Jl.
Sutomo.
No.
4 Medan .
Email: junitabatubara@uhn.
ABSTRACT
The authors aim to discuss the role of the saxophone in the presentation of Toba Batak traditional music in the city of Medan.
The development of traditional music ensembles using the saxophone instrument is very rapid.
This is caused by the large number of songs used that are popular music.
The use of the saxophone instrument is growing rapidly in wedding customs and death ceremonies in the traditional music of the Toba Batak community as a carrier of melodies and 'bunga-bunga'.
Usually, at Toba Batak traditional wedding parties, the function of the saxophone can be varied.
There is the main melody carrier, carrying a collection of notes that resemble variations .
and harmony with the various instruments used in the ensemble.
The method used in this research is a descriptive qualitative method in which researchers conduct observations and unstructured interviews to obtain valid information.
The research results show that the saxophone plays a role as power in the Toba Batak gondang ensemble for each song played.
Especially when giving ulos to the bride and groom.
Keywords: Saxophone instrument.
Toba Batak traditional wedding ceremony.
Tradition.
Modern
ABSTRAK
Perkembangan ansambel musik tradisi yang di dalamnya menggunakan alat musik instrumen saxophone sangat pesat.
Hal ini diakibatkan oleh banyaknya lagu-lagu yang digunakan lebih kepada musik popular.
Adapun penggunaan instrumen saxophone sangat berkembang pesat pada adat pernikahan dan upacara kematian pada musik adat masyarakat Batak Toba sebagai pembawa melodi dan Aobunga-bungaAo.
Biasanya pada pesta adat pernikahan adat Batak Toba fungsi saxophone bisa beragam, sebagai pembawa melodi utama, membawa kumpulan nada yang menyerupai variasi .
unga-bung.
dan harmoni dengan berbagai alat yang digunakan dalam ansambel tersebut.
Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode kualitatif deskriptif dimana peneliti melakukan observasi dan wawancara tidak terstruktur untuk mendapatkan informasi yang valid.
Hasil daripada penelitian adalah instrumen saxophone memiliki peran sebagai power di dalam ansambel gondang Batak Toba untuk setiap lagu-lagu yang dimainkan, khususnya pada saat memberikan ulos kepada pengantin.
Kata kunci: Instrumen saxophone, upacara pernikahan adat Batak Toba.
Tradisi.
Modern Jurnal Panggung V35/N2/06/2025 Saxophone in the Toba Batak Traditional Wedding Ceremony in Medan: Harmony of Tradition and Modernity INTRODUCTION Boru/ Marriage(Purba, 2014:.
The Batak tribe, one of the largest in Marriage in the Toba Batak custom is Indonesia, consists of six sub -tribes from not just a husband-and-wife relationship but North Pakpak, also unites a large family and clan from both Simalungun.
Angkola, and Mandailing.
Each parties, including parents, siblings, boru, subtribal has its own unique social structure, and Hula-hula (Simarmata et.
2023: .
life system, and marriage customs.
The Batak Meanwhile.
Novelita et.
9: .
said in community has now spread to various regions the Batak culture, marriage not only requires of Indonesia (Hutagaol & Erfina, 2021: .
the blessing of the family but also involves According to Patora in Anugrah et al .
their active role in traditional ceremonies.
, tradition is a sustainable cultural heritage Situmorang & Robert Sibarani .
1: .
argue that form identity and needs to be preserved.
that the wedding ceremony is a tradition of Indonesia is rich in tribes and cultures, one the Toba Batak tribe formerly, but now many of which is the Batak tribe in North Sumatra, traditions, such as Paulak Une and Maningkir which makes regional art as part of a sacred Stairs, are simplified into a series in Ulaon ceremony and a tradition, including marriage Badika because of various factors.
Traditional (William, 2018:.
The Batak tribe consists activities always involve traditional music of six sub-tribes and continues to preserve as an important part of the implementation cultural heritage, including the oral tradition of music during traditional events.
Music of the Toba Batak ethnic group, which has been is one of the main pillars of all traditions, passed down for generations as an important culture, and civilization, which can build a part of the identity and values AUAUof the lives framework of modality, especially Melody of their people (Cindy, et.
al, 2023: .
The (Zachariadou in Galingging, 2022, p.
Batak Toba community is one that inheriting Music has several advantages, because it ancestral culture from generation to generation is comfortable, soothing, causing positive and having an immigration culture to urban feelings, relaxing, structured, and universal cities for education and work.
Although Batak (Coal, 2021, p.
In the Toba Batak Toba people live in urban cities with different community, traditional music complements cultures, the Toba Batak community remains and accompanies Toba Batak customs.
firm in the culture of its ancestors.
Toba Batak present, traditional music can still be found migration also occured in Medan in the 19th in the Toba Batak community because it is the Despite living in a heterogeneous result of creativity, initiative, and real feelings community and having a modern lifestyle, the that are present in the culture of the Toba Toba Batak community in Medan always runs Batak community itself.
In the social life of the traditional traditions, such as the customs of Toba Batak community, musical activities also Saur Matua or Sari Matua traditional .
ustoms have different meanings and goals: depending of the death of people who are old ag.
and on their use, for example, in the context of Pangoli Pangoli Pangoli or Ulaon Pamuli customary education and religious rituals or Sumatera:
Toba.
Karo.
Jurnal Panggung V35/N2/06/2025 Erwin Purba.
Mauly Purba.
Vannesia.
Junita Batubara*.
Torang Naiborhu in the context of entertainment events.
GodangAos According to Batubara, the existence of However, today gondang music music is the creativity of one of the musical poets have undergone changes in terms of facts of a performance art that is still alive, and the use of instruments.
Gondang games using it will not be like that just like that .
1, p.
wind instruments are extensively used in Music is the expression of artists born from Toba Batak traditional music.
One of the most various stimuli, such as stories, experiences, frequently used instruments is a saxophone.
and emotions.
Differences in stimuli affect The music innovation through experiments and saxophones is a new pattern today.
This can the development of traditional idioms in be observed in various traditional ceremonies modern dishes, creating novelty in music in the city of Medan.
For example, when (Sumarsono & Sukotjo, 2024: .
According the writer attended a wedding ceremony in to Simanjuntak et.
5: 3.
, music has Medan, presentation of music that should always been an important part of human life, use Gondang ensembles at traditional events with each culture having a typical type and actually used blowing instruments, one of function used on various occasions.
Everyone which was Saxophone.
A saxophone is an enjoyed music according to their taste, aerophone musical instrument used in the both in terms of genre and instrument.
The Curt Sachs and Hornbostel classification.
development of traditional Toba Batak music Although made from metal, this instrument is in Medan has experienced very rapid changes, included in the woodwind group because the and the development of music has influenced sound comes from vibrating air .
, 2025: 3.
consumption of the Batak Toba community in The use of the saxophone in the Medan.
This is in line with the development traditional ensemble gives a new color, even of technology, especially information and as a lead melody in the presentation of Toba communication, which can accelerate the Batak traditional music in various contexts of exchange of ideas, values, and patterns.
This The use of saxophone instruments development is common in culture.
The in traditional music is not only for the value of modern world affects all aspects of life, with the music function in an ensemble, with the technology and information media being the saxophone instrument providing aesthetic main driving force for modernity, even in value in the presentation of traditional Toba remote areas (Henik, 2023: .
Batak music.
Therefore, music lovers prefer to This is confirmed by the functional provide traditional music using saxophones, cultural theory that culture must be in line especially in urban cities such as Medan City.
with the development of the era, so that it Today, the use of saxophones in the is not stagnant.
For example.
Gondang Batak presentation of traditional music in Medan Toba used traditional music during the death shows significant developments.
This can be It should be noted that Batak seen in the presence of saxophone musical Jurnal Panggung V35/N2/06/2025 Saxophone in the Toba Batak Traditional Wedding Ceremony in Medan: Harmony of Tradition and Modernity instruments in various Toba Batak traditional activities of the Batak Toba community shows music presentations in the city of Medan.
the existence of musical activities that are It is also influenced by the development of influenced by Christianity.
The fundamental ensembles and community needs.
Basically, changes in the life of the Margondang tradition the Toba Batak Ansambel uses traditional began with the influence of Christianity.
Some instruments in the Gondang Sabangunan regulations issued by the Zending Agency and Gondang Hasapi ensembles.
Gondang limit traditional Gondang performances to Sabangunan Ensemble is an ensemble whose certain settings among Toba Batak Christians.
instrument consists of Four Ogung .
uspended The church, as an extension of Zending's gong.
, namely ogung ihutan, ogung oloan, mission, legalized the rules through laws that ogung dale, and ogung panggora.
Five must be obeyed by the Batak Toba community Taganing or Drums (Single Headed Braced of Christianity.
(Purba, 2000:32-.
Dru.
, one ODAP (Double Headd Dru.
The Church's view on Zending's mission one Gordang (Single Headed Braced Dru.
, considers the practice of Gondang as a cultural a Double Reed Oboe Sarune.
Aerophone, activity associated with the ritual ceremony and one hesek (Struck Idiophon.
but, as the of old trust .
re-Christia.
Therefore, the culture and community are developing.
Church has a policy to deny the existence In addition to considering the functions of the Toba Batak Anemambel tradition.
and uses of music in Toba Batak society, other This was part of the efforts of the German aspects that need to be considered are the Rheinische-Gesellschaft (RMG) mission in dynamics of changes and their development.
the 1860s throughout the Batak region.
The Since the formation of the culture of the Toba Batak people who have adhered to "the Toba Batak community and the days of the new" religion do not want to take risks to be ancestors of the Toba Batak community, this ostracized from the ecclesiastical community culture has never been separated from change because they participate in the practice of or development.
Both in terms of function and margondang performances.
Restrictions and use, how to create music, the social status of even bans on the church cause changes in musicians, and the type of musical instrument musical performance.
The missionaries who However, the most significant changes brought Christianity to introduce Western occured in the practice of music in the Toba music into the church service, starting with Batak community were marked before and trumpets and then the blowing ensemble after the entry of religious teachings into the .
axophone music is used to accompany songs territory of the community.
of worship in the churc.
The entry of the use of this saxophone With this cultural anomaly, wind music is a new phenomenon of collaborative music that has only been found in church buildings, such as Campursari music in Javanese society, transplanted from the church environment and Tanjidor music in the Betawi community into the domain of traditional, religious, and (Suparno.
200: .
Music used in the traditional ritual of the Toba Batak, takes the role of Jurnal Panggung V35/N2/06/2025 Erwin Purba.
Mauly Purba.
Vannesia.
Junita Batubara*.
Torang Naiborhu Gondang Batak as a local wisdom.
Gondang In music, they also often borrowed Batak was abandoned due to social change special features of music culture, one of which caused by foreign cultural pressures and is the exchange of instruments.
The concept of adopted by the Toba Batak community as an music does not need to be accompanied by its act of strengthening in addressing new cultures old concept.
However, the music innovation that are considered exotic.
This is based on an presented here does not have a new meaning.
understanding that Gondang which was once (Nakagawa, 1998, p.
considered sacred as part of cultural activities.
In The New Grove Dictionary of Music can be replaced by the role of wind music as and Musician, it is stated that Saxophone is a a new product to complete the functions and form of wind band whose entire instrument objectives of using Gondang.
consists of a metallic wind instrument communityAos originating from the 1820s .
0, pp.
understanding of music for each custom The wind music tradition that first over the last three decades has experienced appeared on the European and American a cultural shift marked by the existence of continents has now become a tradition of collaborative music whose style is different music culture for other people.
This tradition from that of Gondang Batak Toba.
The initial can be seen as a result of cultural contact concept of including Western diatonic music and has a clear relationship with European in the traditional music system of the Toba expansion in terms of cultural development.
Batak community, which was originally there are three processes of social dynamics.
intended to accompany religious worship The first is related to the cultural learning in the church, was finally used in traditions, process of community members, including wedding parties, ritual ceremonies for those the internalization process .
ndependent/ who died (Saur Matu.
, excavation of bones individual learning proces.
the second is .
angongkal hol.
, monument parties and socialization .
nteraction with individuals customs of other Batak Toba people.
and the third is enculturation The Toba Batak The authors argue that the cultural .
djusting the mind to the norms or rules of contact of the European community .
specially one's cultural lif.
There is also a process of those brought by missionarie.
with the Batak cultural development, from a simple form to a Toba community has an impact on the cultural complex culture or cultural evolution.
In this change in the Batak community, where the two case exemplified by Lestari .
0: .
, the cultural contacts lead to innovation .
socialization process can be through music In this cultural encounter, there was also a by instilling love, longing and attachment change in the instruments used.
At present, and the beauty of the brothersAo culture of life.
most traditional ceremonies of the Toba Batak For example, first going home only reflects a community using Western musical instruments simple family ritual, which is to gather with do not eliminate the special characteristics relatives during holidays.
However, over time, of Batak music, but the instruments used are this tradition has developed into an important Jurnal Panggung V35/N2/06/2025 Saxophone in the Toba Batak Traditional Wedding Ceremony in Medan: Harmony of Tradition and Modernity part of the social identity of Indonesian people, .
he Batak Toba community believes that wind involving various aspects of culture, economy, music can be used in traditional ceremonie.
, and technology.
and the reactions of individuals exposed to In The New Grove Dictionary of Music these foreign cultural elements.
The Toba Batak and Musician .
, it is stated that there is community may accept the entry of wind music a process of geographically spreading culture into Toba Batak culture especially in Medan.
caused by the transfer of nations, also called After blowing music was received by the Toba Another process is the process of Batak community, this ensemble developed absorbing foreign elements by citizens in into commercial music.
To meet traditional society, which includes the process of cultural needs, the wind instrument began to combine acculturation, especially the absorption of several traditional musical instruments into foreign elements.
Culture without eliminating the wind instrument, especially the sulim the original culture and the process of .
and hasapi .
icking instruments, assimilation, especially the emergence of a Thus, the combination of traditional mixture of different cultures.
The latter is an music elements with wind ensembles can update or innovation that creates a new culture.
be considered an assimilation process, and Something that underlies the development through the combination of the two cultural of wind music in the Toba Batak community elements in the end, new culture will emerge is the entry of Christian missionaries from as a result of the innovation process.
Thus.
Europe to Batak.
A spread such as this is the wind instrument .
axophone ban.
in its called diffusion.
The cultural absorption of the development in the Toba Batak community Toba Batak community .
is a result went through the four processes described of the diffusion process.
This absorption was performed without eliminating the original assimilation, and innovation .
culture (Gondang Sabangunan and Gondang Hasap.
The Toba Batak community uses blowing instruments in traditional ceremonies METHOD without losing the culture of Gondang because According to the author's observations in Gondang is still used but rare.
In reviewing the city of Medan, in all traditional activities the process of inflatable music adaptation to carried out by the Batak Toba community the Toba Batak community, it is necessary .
specially traditional marriage ceremonies to pay attention to the condition of the recipient community, individuals, or groups ceremonie.
, wind music is always chosen to of people who have foreign cultural elements accompany the ceremony.
Why did it happen? .
, and the channels traversed What context makes this wind instrument the by foreign cultural elements to enter into the first choice for use in traditional ceremonies? cultural recipient (Christianit.
Furthermore.
To investigate this the problem further, there are elements of the recipient community the author conducted direct observations Jurnal Panggung V35/N2/06/2025 Erwin Purba.
Mauly Purba.
Vannesia.
Junita Batubara*.
Torang Naiborhu of the activity of the Saxophone musical employee was a job that Toba Batak desired at that time.
Education for them is "golden including wedding customs and traditional fields", a way to break away from boring ceremonies commemorating deaths around farming and monotonous village life.
The the city of Medan.
Regarding the historical educated Toba Batak people want to change aspects and development of wind music, their lives, which is why they always migrate the authors conducted a literature research to the city.
Although the Toba Batak migration and interviewed several relevant speakers outside the Batak land occurred before 1900, .
related to the topic of the the migration year that could be traced was The method used in this study was when the Batak Toba people, precisely after a descriptive analysis of the EMIC and ETIC 1900, first moved to Simalungun.
Asahan, and This research was conducted in Karo.
(Cunningham, 1958:.
the Batak community in Medan, especially Some Toba Batak people came to Medan, in Wisma Menteng Indah.
Wisma Gorga, but the situation was not the same as that and Wisma Lambok.
The ETIC approach in in Eastern Sumatra.
The Toba Batak people studying the use of saxophone in the Toba who came to the Medan region were usually Batak small in number, but the number gradually Medan focused on objective external analysis.
This was motivated by the desire seeing this phenomenon from the perspective of educated migrants to get a job in the of universal culture and identifying the effects government environment at the time .
round of modernity on local traditions.
Then, the the 1930.
Medan City is an administrative results of this study are also accompanied and trading area in North Sumatra.
Records by photos to get a visual picture of the object of data on the migration of the Toba Batak under study.
people to Medan City were also proposed by Cunningham .
in the form of the spread of churches.
According to him, it is RESULTS AND DISCUSSION reasonable to see the development and spread The entry of the Toba Batak people in the of churches as an indication of the spread of the city of Medan Toba Batak community itself.
In other words.
With the establishment of schools in the existence of churches, especially KBP, can Batak, the knowledge of the Batak community be used as a graphic index of its distribution.
is even more advanced and developed.
The According to his notes, the period 1951-1954 Batak people, educated and are able to read, showed a significant increase in the migration write, and speak Dutch, leave their homeland of the Toba Batak community to Medan and to find work in the ruling government, as other regions in eastern Sumatra.
From a total a teacher or low-level administrative staff, of 96,715 people in 1951, it reached 132,193 in work on plantations, or as bookkeepers in the library.
However, being a government Jurnal Panggung V35/N2/06/2025 Meanwhile, the exact number of the Toba Saxophone in the Toba Batak Traditional Wedding Ceremony in Medan: Harmony of Tradition and Modernity Batak community in Medan was not mentioned for expressing the spirit of collectivity, by Cunningham.
However, according to him, in 1930 there was a congregation of the enriching the variety of music arts that reflect HKBP Church on Jalan H.
Cokroaminoto, the dynamics of the Toba Batak community.
and in the 1950s there were also several Therefore, this study of the entry of wind music other congregations, such as the Sidorame into the culture of the Toba Batak community HKBP Church Congregation.
Brayan Island, provides an interesting perspective on how Padang Bulan.
Simpang Limun, and in areas new elements are accepted and developed in adjacent to Medan City, namely Percut Sei complex cultural landscapes.
Tuan, and Belawan (Cunningham, 1958, p.
The Batak Toba urban community seems New Interpretation of Presentation of Toba to continue to grow along with the entry of Batak Traditional Music migrants from villages to cities.
They come One form of ensemble currently used in either individually or in group.
Some come to traditional Toba community ceremonies in stay, school, or visit.
This migration continues.
Medan City is the Gondang Entrepreneurs.
and, until now, the Toba Batak community various regions .
esearch location.
or existing has spread to all corners of Medan.
organizations/groups, and type of musical instruments used in The entry of wind music .
axophone ban.
gondang ensembles are equipped with wind in the culture of the Toba Batak community instruments that are constantly changing from The entry of wind music, especially time to time.
Sometimes, the formation of a through the Saxophone Band group, has band depends on the availability of musicians, brought significant changes to the culture of and there are times when it depends on the the Toba Batak community.
Previous wind format that people want.
The use of saxophones music which was not part of the Toba Batak in the presentation of Toba Batak traditional music tradition began to become an important music in the city of Medan begins with the element in the social and cultural life of the emergence of ideas for the modernization of people in the region.
This phenomenon reflects traditional Batak Toba music.
It aims to be a the process of cultural acculturation in which melody carrier even as a substitute for Sulim in the elements of modern music are accepted, the Toba Batak Uninging Music as traditional adapted, and combined with existing local music at a particular ceremony.
Toba Batak music traditions.
traditional music offerings using wind music The emergence of the Saxophone Band is are used as variations of melodies and they an example of how the Toba Batak community .
raditional music personne.
often mention opens itself to the influence of outside culture, the term "flowers or mambosa-bungai".
while maintaining its cultural identity.
These variations for listeners can increase the this context, wind music not only becomes aesthetic value which can produce harmony.
entertainment but also functions as a medium The use of sulim and saxophone in the Batak Jurnal Panggung V35/N2/06/2025 Erwin Purba.
Mauly Purba.
Vannesia.
Junita Batubara*.
Torang Naiborhu melody uning-uningan produces a melody within a certain interval distance.
In fact, it is not uncommon for a saxophone to be a core melody carrier in a gondang report in the Toba Batak custom.
The presentation of Batak traditional music using saxophone instruments in the customs of marriage and death does not have significant differences.
It is just that Figure 1.
Noel Entertainment (Saxophone on Traditional Musi.
(Source: Author, 2.
in a custom music presentation shown in a certain customary context that has a different of saxophones in Batak Toba traditional In the wedding music presentation, music in Medan has become the main choice the format of traditional music presentation of consumers in traditional music, both in includes Trumpet Formation - Alto Sax - wedding ceremonies and death ceremonies.
Trombone - Tenor Sax - Tuba - Bass Drum/ - The option to use traditional music formation Snare Drum.
This formation is usually used using saxophones is considered to raise the to accompany the bride on the journey to the status of the music provided.
The use of church for blessing.
This formation also forms saxophone in Toba Batak traditional music.
TROMBE is a Lead Melody.
Alto according to consumers as a modernization Sax, and others as harmony by using certain of music is able to give the impression of an The Keyboard-Drum Kit-Elect is aesthetic at the traditional event that is held.
often used in the presentation of traditional Not only as a form to increase modern music, music formation.
Bass - Elect.
The formation the provision of traditional music using the (Guitar - Trumpet - Alto Sax Ae Taganin.
Saxophone format is considered capable is often referred to as band formation in of producing "expensive" music.
This is the presentation of traditional music.
The because saxophone is an instrument that has presentation of the formation in traditional a high selling value.
therefore when used in music is adjusted according to consumer traditional music, it can improve the quality of Traditional music formation using the music provided.
a keyboard-sulim-alto sax is common.
The existence of a saxophone is the first choice in Dynamics and Development of Saxophone every formation and is even able to defeat core in Toba Batak Traditional Music in Medan instruments such as sarune-hasapi and others City as melodic carriers in the indigenous music of Toba Batak.
Cultured communities are developed based on various factors that determine the Based on an interview with Noel ways of life in society.
In addition to the Entertainment, a Toba Batak traditional environment and technology, other factors are music service provider in Medan, the use social and political organizations that affect Jurnal Panggung V35/N2/06/2025 Saxophone in the Toba Batak Traditional Wedding Ceremony in Medan: Harmony of Tradition and Modernity daily needs.
These elements are called the core because of the role of wind music will disturb of culture and include the ability to understand the role of traditional Gondang music, so it is existing resources.
The core of culture more likely to be extinct.
broadly explains how it influences the way This happened to the saxophone with the of life of the Toba Batak communityAos local development of the brass musical instruments environment, especially in traditional music in Medan.
The use of saxophones has become Toba Batak has its traditional music the latest phenomenon in traditional music in and is an element of culture.
Traditional the Toba Batak community in Medan City.
music in the Batak Toba community occupies the presentation of gondang, the saxophone a very important position in traditional is often used as a melody accompaniment, events in the form of traditional ceremonies, and can also be used to replace sulim.
For religious ceremonies, and entertainment.
saxophone musicians, an understanding of social life, musical activities are used in the traditional Toba Batak music is more or less context of customs, religious ceremonies, the same as that of other ordinary people.
However, because they are often directly Community musical activities include music involved in traditional activities, they are performances such as Margondang.
familiar with customary systems and goals.
At present, the blowing music for the Initially, wind music began to be Toba Batak community has been attached to introduced in the city of Medan around 1962 most of the Toba Batak community, especially to accompany songs in religious ceremonies the Toba Batak community in the city of every week, so that they began to be invited Medan, because in every traditional wedding to traditional wedding and death ceremonies ceremony and the commemoration of the death to accompany church and tortor songs.
of Saur Matua or other events, the wind genre that time, it was still just entertainment or just always exist as part of the customs.
During its filling the time at certain times and increasing development, inflating ensembles are present rhythmic accentations .
eating the rhythm in big cities and managed professionally to of the son.
mainly when accompanying meet the needs of the Toba Batak community the tortor.
In its development, the need for by holding a celebration in a traditional Toba Batak to blow music to accompany traditional ceremonies is increasing over time.
On the other hand, the presence of Although the number of winds in Medan blowing ensembles in the cultural life of the is very limited, the priority is only to meet Toba Batak community, especially in the death the needs of the church because this music ceremony of Saur Matua, caused different belongs to the Sidorame HKBP Church and reactions in these circles.
These point of views HKBP Sudirman Medan.
Togatorop in Torang and opinions come from the Batak people, .
2: .
said that in 1965, the Sidorame who are concerned about the presence of this Church's Inauguration music group began to type of wind instrument.
Concerns that occur accompany the traditional wedding and death Jurnal Panggung V35/N2/06/2025 Erwin Purba.
Mauly Purba.
Vannesia.
Junita Batubara*.
Torang Naiborhu ceremonies with church and tortor songs as To strengthen the rhythm, they added bass drums as tempo regulators.
addition, the main service can only be carried out by members of the Church Church owner of the wind instrument, whereas outsiders will only receive services if the music owner congregation provides recommendations to the church of the music owner.
Based on this situation, some Toba Batak people in Medan tried to present the wind Figure 2.
Noel Music Photo Archives (Source: Author, 2.
group from Batak land, especially from Balige.
Laguboti, and Tarutung, to accompany the traditional ceremonies they held.
These needs are mainly aimed at accompanying traditional marriage and death ceremonies.
Considering that the prospect of wind music in Medan was very promising, in 1987, a Toba Batak businessman surnamed Tambunan established a new music group called Tambunan Music in Balige and then spread wings to Medan.
Members of this group are often members of the Balige Music Group who came to Medan to find a better life (Manjalahi Jalanti Na Loma.
Tambunan Music was the first commercial wind music group in Medan, the owner and leader of noel music.
With the development of wind music in the city of Medan, various music groups presented traditional music, traditional marriage, and traditional music of The musicians of the wind instrument, especially saxophone, realized that wind music that accompanied traditional ceremonies, such as the Gondang Sabagunan game, was a problem or deviation.
The partisanship of the wind music players, especially the saxophone player, to the Gondang Sabagunan musical Jurnal Panggung V35/N2/06/2025 instrument because the music is their identity that they try to express with a different nuance.
The position of saxophone in traditional Toba Batak music in the traditional music scene is considered pargonsi .
ame of the Gondang Sabangunan playe.
Saxophones in music offerings in the context of traditional music are often asked to play the Gondang ratio and music offerings with lairing melodies such as spiritual songs.
The Batak community who attended the traditional ceremony felt emotional and amazed when they saw the ceremony took place.
Therefore, an idea emerged from the community to make music an alternative to the Gondang Sabangunan.
Another factor that places saxophone in traditional music is related to the difficulty in obtaining the Gondang Sabangunan ensemble.
The limitation of the existence of Gondang Sabangunan is that it does not meet the calls of every traditional ceremony, so it provides an alternative opportunity for musicians to think of ideas to combine music from traditional contexts and wind instruments, especially The presence of the saxophone is Saxophone in the Toba Batak Traditional Wedding Ceremony in Medan: Harmony of Tradition and Modernity the most desirable instrument apart from the used by the Tambunan music group included color of the sound but it can replace the sulim three trumpets, two Alto Saksophone, one as a carrier of the Melody of the Traditional Saksophone Tenor, two thrombones, one bass Music of Death or the Marriage of the use of tube .
, and one drum set.
the Saksophone in the Customary Music of The dynamics of saxophone development Death or often called Saur Matua is delivered that have occurred over three decades are in to accompany the Tor-tor (Batak dance during line with the development of brass bands.
the ceremon.
thus the saxophone is not only Brass band formation began to change with as a melody carrier but also as a trigger for the keyboard-Sulim-Saxophone-Trombone panortors .
implementing traditional trumpet formations.
This is influenced by the systems followed by the hassle of the gondang sound sampling technology on the keyboard, likewise with the wedding ceremony.
As in which produces sounds similar to the brass the Saur Matua ceremony, the saxophone However, the saxophone still exists in was used to accompany the traditional the presentation of traditional music because it Toba Batak marriage ceremony in Medan.
is considered to be able to produce expensive At the Toba Batak Community Marriage nuances in every presentation of traditional Ceremony in Medan City today.
Saksophone music both marriage and death customs.
is used both during the bride pickup from her Some of the views and opinions are present parents' house known as Marsibuha-Buhai, from the Batak people who have been worried accompanying the bride to the church, and the about the presence of this wind music.
The procession when the bride enters the building family that occurs because of the role of this where the wedding traditional series is held.
wind music will erode the role of traditional customary series, the saxophone is often used Gondang music that can result in the loss of as a lead melody in clay gondang, gondang hasanah, and initial gondang.
Even more inclined to use the saxophone in the Manjalo Tumpak session, namely the ceremony to receive money from the bride and groom from the families and invited guests.
CONCLUSIONS
Saxophones are used in traditional music during death and marriage ceremonies.
The After conducting an interview, it was clear use of saxophone in the presentation of Toba that the commercial music founded in Medan Batak traditional music in the city of Medan had a better life for its musicians.
In addition, begins with the emergence of ideas for the the courage of music owners in providing modernization of traditional Batak Toba facilities as mentioned above, is due to its It aims to be a melody carrier even promising prospects and expected benefits.
as a substitute for Sulim in the Toba Batak Therefore, it is unsurprising that the number Uninging Music as a traditional music at a and diversity of other commercial wind particular ceremony.
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