Maena pada Upacara Falowa di Ori Laraga Kota Gunung Sitoli : Analisis Tekstual, Musikal dan Tari

Abstract

This research studies about an analysis of Maena poems's structure in cultural wedding occasion 'ori laraga ' in Gunung Sitoli. The writer wants to see the purposes are and why Nias people are so happy when they sing and move their body when the poems sung. In this thesis, the writer tries to use some semiotics theories and functional theories to know the meanings deeper which are contained in every poem sung in Maena. The writer selecs 'fanema 'o tome to be the source to see the transcript of the song texts, the tone, the basic tone used, the tone area, the number of the tone, the tone interval, and the conture. From the beauty side, the writer wants to analyze Maena dance itself, the structure of Maena and the poems of Maena, so that the writer is able to analyze the textual poems of maena which are often sung in the cultural wedding 'Ori Laraga' in Gunung Sitoli. The results found that maena dance is a form of entertainment in the ceremonies conducted at Gunung Sitoli. That's what makes all people can come together and become familiar among one of the family with other families regardless of background and social status of the people who follow it. Dance maena not be a necessity that in the absence of maena the ceremony can not take place, only without the dancing maena there seems to be something missing from the ceremonial meaning.