ABSTRACT
It is assumed that the musical genre tembang Sunda (Cianjuran) originated from the epic narrative carita pantun around the middle of the nineteenth century. Since that time the repertoire and performance practice of tembang Sunda have very much changed, whereas the carita pantun has remained relatively stable. In this paper I shall compare text and performance of these two Sundanese genres of music as they are performed these days in West Java.
