Rasa Sayang
"Rasa Sayang" (pronounced [ˈrasa saˈjaŋ], literally "loving feeling") or "Rasa Sayange" (in Indonesia) is a Malay folk song[1][2][3][4] popular in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The basis of "Rasa Sayang" is somewhat similar to Dondang Sayang and many other Malay folk songs, which take their form from the pantun, a traditional Ethnic Malays poetic form.[5] Some in Indonesia have claimed that the song originally came from the Moluccas,[6] but such claims are disputed, as the standard Malay language itself and the tradition of pantun exchange are "alien" to the Moluccas archipelago.[7][8][9][10]
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[edit] Lyrics
[edit] Malay version
| Malay[11] | Literal English translation |
|---|---|
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Rasa sayang, hey!, Buah cempedak di luar pagar, Pulau pandan jauh ke tengah, Dua tiga kucing berlari, Pisang emas dibawa berlayar, |
I've got that loving feeling, hey!, The cempedak tree is across the fence, Pandan island far in midst, Two or three cats are running around, Pisang emas brought on a journey, |
Because this song is in Pantun form, for each quatrain, there is no relevance of the first two lines to the message conveyed by the last two except to provide the rhyming scheme. There are many version of the lyrics of "Rasa Sayang", but it usually starts with this refrain:
- Rasa sayang, hey!
- Rasa sayang-sayang hey,
- Hey, lihat nona jauh,
- Rasa sayang-sayang, hey
The refrain is then followed by a wide variety of popular Malay pantun'
[edit] Moluccas Malay version[citation needed]
[edit] Refrain
Rasa sayange... rasa sayang sayange...
Eee lihat Ambon dari jauh rasa sayang sayange
[edit] Content
Mana kancil akan dikejar, kedalam pasar cobalah cari...
Masih kecil rajin belajar, sudah besar senanglah diri
Si Amat mengaji tamat, mengaji Qur'an di waktu fajar...
Biar lambat asal selamat, tak kan lari gunung dikejar
Kalau ada sumur di ladang, boleh kita menumpang mandi...
Kalau ada umurku panjang, boleh kita berjumpa lagi
[edit] Controversy
A controversy over the song's provenance came to a head in 2007 when the Malaysian Tourism Board released the Rasa Sayang Commercial, an advertisement used as part of Malaysia's "Truly Asia" tourism campaign.[12] Some Indonesians have accused Malaysia of heritage theft. Malaysia in return claimed that the song belongs to people of the Malay Archipelago, Malaysians and Indonesians alike.[13] Malaysian Tourism Minister Adnan Mansor stated, "It is a folk song from the Nusantara and we are part of the Nusantara."[12]
[edit] In popular culture
- The song appeared in a black-and-white Japanese film produced in 1943, Marai No Tora ("The Tiger of Malaya").[14][15]
- Rasa Sayang Eh is the name of a Malay film published in 1959.[16]
- The song was sung in a scene of a popular 1960 Malay film Antara Dua Darjat, directed by P. Ramlee.[17][18]
- The song "Rasa Sayange" was recorded by PT Lokananta in Solo, Indonesia on August 15, 1962. The master copy of this recording is still kept by PT Lokananta. This is the third known recording of the song.[citation needed]
- The song "Rasa Sayang 2.0" was a theme song of the movie "Nasi Lemak 2.0" by Namewee. The song is sang by Namewee and Karen Kong.
- Since the 1930s, the "Rasa Sayang" song has been taught to Indonesian kindergarten children, making it one of the most popular folk songs in Indonesia.[citation needed]
[edit] Probe "DNA" of the Songs[citation needed]
Students of Bandung Fe Institute began work. Incidentally, they are again collecting traditional songs of the archipelago. Of songs Bungong Jeumpa in Aceh, to a variety of folk songs from Papua.
A modeling was made through a computer program. Object is the songs of the archipelago. The guiding principle is simple: every song must have had a different tone sequences. Sought is the basic information unit of a song.
"Distinguishing human genetics can be done by observing and information stored in DNA," said Hokky Situngkir, February 22, 2012. "But to know the" DNA "of songs, we need to know the smallest unit of information that could result in a difference sense of each song," he explained.
A note, said Hokky, could represent a song. Not stand alone, and form the song when she is with rows of other tones. Hokky also find the smallest unit to the tune of tone sequences.
To keep track of tone sequences, the researchers were then prepared a database of folk songs from all over Indonesia. They note tone row, and then digitized. Data tones of the song, is converted into data monophonic.
"The essence of this analysis is to examine the representation of tone and duration of a song," said Hokky. "And from this material, then converted to time series data," said Hokky.
The next step is to specify the form of tape holding each song. This parameter is obtained by utilizing a number of methods in the study of statistical mechanics are developed in the physical sciences.
From the research, Holly made the five parameters that form a ribbon meme.
The first parameter is the coefficient Zipf-Mandelbrot. With this parameter, the music is seen as a "language". If the tone and duration of each configuration is the letter, then he will form a word (string tone). The words are then sorted. Starting from the commonly used, until that is rarely used.
From this pattern, then calculated the values of coefficient Zipf-Mandelbrot in it. There are three variables the results show the complexity of statistical features of the tone and features of the song. He reflects the pattern of repetition of message tone on the song.
The second component is a meme ribbon coefficient of gyration. Here, the researchers compared the tone and duration at a time with the previous time. He can also be converted into a radial motion visualization. This process produces the density parameter of a song. The parameter that measures how much the song apart from the linear line. It shows the value of meetings seberapat (density) of a song when played.
The third parameter is the coefficient spiral. Hokky sort the notes from lower to higher. These data showed the level of exploration of the notes of a song. Coefficient spiral itself is a value that describes the extent of deviation of the notes in a spiral effect occurs. As this parameter reflects the dynamics of tone in a song.
The fourth and fifth parameters are the entropy and negentropi. Entropy is a system parameter to calculate the level of irregularity. The more orderly a system, the more the small value of entropy. And vice versa.
It is measured through the variation of tone and duration of the song. The higher the leaps of a high quantity of tonal variety, and duration of the tone used, the greater the entropy.
Opponents of the entropy is negentropi. He measured the degree of order or structural organization of songs. The greater the value negentropi a system, then the greater the degree of order in the system.
At that point, and then process all the data Hokky tape holding it to be a matrix of distances between the artifacts of traditional songs. These distances are then transformed into a tree motif filomemetical traditional songs Indonesia.
Hokky finally put the results on an image circle which refers to the grouping of songs. Song of the same area tend to congregate in one group. The result was astonishing. "I stress," said Hokky. Because he did not think the songs came together like it came from. He then tells of how there are a number of songs of unknown origin. Without the need to listen to the song, the tone and duration data entered into computer applications. "In a probabilistic can be known from the area where the song came from," he said.
With the research techniques, eventually Hokky can trace the origins of the song Rasa Sayange. The song, in a map called phylomemetic are songs that come from the Moluccas Islands.
"He was very far from the tracks of Riau province, which has characteristics very close to Malaysia. This analysis showed a very small chance, or nearly impossible, the song came from Malaysia, "said Hokky.
[edit] Recording Movement[citation needed]
Song analysis techniques have also been applied to hundreds of folk songs. "Already there are about 500 songs successfully collected from all over the archipelago," said Hokky. But the number is still relatively small, because there are thousands of traditional songs throughout Indonesia.
"This research can also be done if we had a lot of data of traditional songs in Indonesia," said Hokky. When data is available and accessible to the public, a lot of useful things can be done. "For example we will add insight into the patterns, studying the cultural diversity in Indonesia, and others," he said.
To that end, Indonesia Hokky invites residents to support the Million Data Movement Culture. The trick helped Indonesia to send data to the traditional culture to www.budaya-indonesia.org site.
This movement, said Hokky, not only record traditional songs, but also elements of the fabric pattern, architecture, dance, ornemen, medicine, ancient manuscripts, and so forth. This effort is important, in order to avoid claims of the parties are not liable in the future.
At least, in terms of traditional songs, Hokky approach to theoretical physics and his friends could destabilize Malaysia claims. Rasa Sayange, what may make, it was truly Indonesia.
[edit] External links
- Rasa Sayang song In Dutch documentary
- "Rasa Sayange" (Indonesian version) on Youtube
- Malaysian Tourism advertisement with Rasa Sayang in the background
- Lyrics of "Rasa Sayange" in Indonesian
[edit] References
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- ^ Antara News: "The Governor of Maluku Insists that the Song 'Rasa Sayange' Belongs to Indonesia"
- ^ Pierre Etienne Lazare Favre (2009). An Account Of The Wild Tribes Inhabiting The Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, And A Few Neighboring Islands: With A Journey In Johore (1865). Kessinger Publishing. pp. 187. ISBN 978-1104029180.
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- ^ David Smyth (2000). The Canon in Southeast Asian Literature: Literatures of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Routledge. pp. 248. ISBN 978-0700710904.
- ^ Annie Ridley Crane Finch (Editor), Kathrine Lore Varnes (Editor) (2002). An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art. University of Michigan Press. pp. 255. ISBN 978-0472067251.
- ^ "The Rasa Sayang Song". Rasa Sayang USA. http://www.rasasayangusa.com/lyrics.html. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
- ^ a b "Folk song sparks row between Indonesia, Malaysia." Tourism Indonesia. October 3, 2007.
- ^ "‘Rasa Sayang’ belongs to everybody, says minister". The Star. 2008-01-12. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/1/12/nation/19988592&sec=nation. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ^ Jeneral Yamashita bukan Harimau Malaya..Tetapi
- ^ Youtube - Marai No Tora (マライの虎)
- ^ Filem Malaysia. Sinema Malaysia - Rasa Sayang Eh (1959)
- ^ Antara Dua Darjat at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Dari filem Antara Dua Darjat
