MDMD(3): Notes and Questions

[Rick Vosper]

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>At 01:09 PM 7/4/97 -0400, the redoubtable Meg Larson wrote:
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>>> 77.6 `Pelog' ??? In this context, it appears to be a musickal mode???
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>Correct. Pelog (along with its counterpart, slendro) is one of the two
principal tunings of Javanese Gamelan. Of the two, Pelog sounds more
"asian" to the Western ear, being roughly pentatonic.
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>Gamelon, in turn refers to an entire orchestra of various-sized gongs
spanning literally the entire range of human hearing, plus percussion,
flutes, and sometimes bowed or hammered string instruments. 
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>Hope this helps.
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>Woefully behind, but struggling,
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>--rick
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