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Monday, October 24, 2011

The Gamelan : Slendro and Pelog tone in gendher and xylophone on gamelan

In-gending gending java which is often used is titilaras kepatihan. Titilaras tangible numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 ̇ gamelan pitches instead of names to be easily recorded and studied. The numbers are in read ji lu ro pat nem pi ji mo, not read do re mi fa sol la do like the western notation because his tone was different once.

Low height for slendro and Pelog titilaras different. In the slendro, the sound level for each note the same. Every one octave is divided into five. However, the gamelan Pelog each level tone pitches are not the same. See the following data,






Slendro
Barang                  1
Gulu/jangga           2
Dada/ tengah         3
Lima                      5
Nem                      6

Pelog Nem
Barang                  1
Gulu/jangga           2
Dada/ tengah         3
Lima                      5
Nem                      6


Pelog Barang
Barang                  7
Gulu/jangga           2
Dada/ tengah         3
Lima                      5
Nem                      6

The tones such as the data is easily found on gendher, xylophone, slentem or saron. Gender complete bladed 14 as follows












Signs point above the mean tone of voice of high / small. While the sign below the mean tone of voice or low weight. In the third patet above, gendher without the use of tone 4. So if there gending tone that is played using 4 (or so-called tone Pelog only can we hear from drummers slentem or saron with a fuller tone.
Slendro and Pelog xylophone has 22 keys that look like the following






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