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Tracy Wong
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Jong Jong Inai 3-part (Practice Tracks)
A catchy Malay folk song about everyday life, a maiden, and a little accident!
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Jong Jong Inai
Download audio practice tracks for Tracy Wong’s “Jong Jong Inai” for 3-part treble & body percussion.
Includes full access for 1-50 singers. These tracks are sold in batches of 50, so please round up the number of singers in your group to the nearest multiple of 50. Example: 42 singers = Qty. of 50 in your cart.
Because of the cultural content of my music, I manage all aspects of the recording and production of learning tracks of my music, and I am delighted to have Graphite be the distributor of these learning tracks. I take pride in doing my best to make sure that these are representative of me and are “ethically-sourced”. This means that the audio recordings and learning tracks for my own music would be edited and/or recorded by choral musicians who speak the language(s) I set music to, and have the lived experience of the culture which I do my best to honour through my music. These musicians are paid for their time, experience, skill, and artistry. I also commit 10% of income earned from my choral works, learning resources, and workshops on Malaysian-themed choral/vocal/composition/music towards funding Malaysian artists and music educators I collaborate with on current and future artistic & educational initiatives.
All purchases will have a packet of audio tracks (the various part-dominant tracks, full mixed track, pronunciation guide).
About the tracks:
- These rehearsal tracks are recordings of my own voice, singing all vocal parts. I have designed them (with the help of my friend in Singapore, Cherie Chai) for the benefit of distant / isolated singing in your personal spaces, and to encourage independent learning. These audio tracks work best with earphones / headphones on.
- These tracks would provide the pronunciation, style, and tone that is appropriate for the performance of this piece.
- The tracks are professionally mixed so singers are ensured high quality audio recordings to support their learning!
Important licensing & purchasing terms: The purchase of this resource allows your choral organization to distribute it to your singers and staff for their own learning at any time, but not to be duplicated, edited in any way, and/or shared beyond the organization.
Thank you for supporting ethical consumption of self-published music!
Tracy Wong
Composer’s Notes
Jong Jong Inai is a Malay folk song about everyday life, with its origins from the state of Terengganu on East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Many communities in this state live by the sea and one would see children playing on the beaches. This Malay folk song is usually sung by children, passed down by their elders, while playing a game of tag. It is a hybrid story of nature, food, and a maiden’s incident. There are variations on the original meaning of this folk song, and this is one of them:
The song tells a story of a maiden, Mak Ipong (a maiden from the Rajawali village), who accidentally stubbed her big toe on the stump of the inai plant while bringing food to the Sultan.
The 2-part treble version was commissioned by United Lithuanian Children’s Choir 2021.
-Tracy Wong
Text
Jong jong inai
Mak Ipong Rajawali
Sepak tunggul inai
berdarah ibu kaki
Semangkuk jeluk, sepinggan dadar
Tak cukup pulut, tambah nasi dagang
-Malay folk song
Translation:
Sailboat (and) local plant
Mak Ipong of Rajawali village
Stub (her big toe) on the inai stump
big toe bleeds
A deep bowl, a flat plate
Not enough glutinous rice, (then) add dagang rice
$1.00 per set
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