THE RELATIONSHIP OF FORM AND MEANING OF SASMITA AND GENDHING TITLE OF PUPPET PERFORMANCES PRESENTED AS WANGSALAN IN THE JAVA GAMELAN BOOK BY BAMBANGYUDOYONO

Abstract

The aim of this research was to explain the relationship of form and meaning of sasmita and gendhing title of puppet performances presented as wangsalan in the Gamelan Jawa book by BambangYudoyono. This study explained the people’s flow of thinking, who want to know the relationship between the riddle and answer of wangsalan by interpreting the sasmitagendhing as a riddle of wangsalan and the title gendhing as the reply of wangsalan. The nature of the research was a descriptive research. Data in this study was sasmitagendhingnamely the cangkriman of wangsalan, and the words of the title gendhing which is the answer of wangsalan.Data source was taken from books of Gamelan Jawaby BambangYudoyono. Data was obtained by reading and writing sasmitagendhing. Data analyzed descriptively. Validity used in this research was construct validity. Reliability used was stability reliability. The result of the research explained that the relationship between form and meaning of sasmitagendhing and title of gendhing puppet performance as wangsalan in Java Gamelan book by BambangYudoyono. There were three form of Relationship in this wangsalan, the first was relationship between cangkriman and answer from wangsalan, indicated part of gendhing title with alphabetic or words similarity from part of sasmitagendhing. two, indicated the gendhing title with description on parts of sasmitagendhing. and the last one was indicated part of gendhing title with synonym on part of sasmitagendhing.