Pelog is one of the two essential scales of gamelan music native to Bali and Java, in Indonesia. The other scale commonly used is called slendro. Saron - Indonesian Embassy in Canberra A gamelan is a musical ensemble of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophone(s), drums, and gongs. ... Topography Map showing Bali within Indonesia Sunset at Jimbaran Beach, Bali Young Balinese Dancers Rice terraces at entrance to Gunung Kawi Temple The Bali Starling lives only in Bali, as few as six may exist on the island Statue of Dewi Sri — Ubud, Bali Bali is an Indonesian island. ... Map of Java Java (Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia, and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. ... Slendro (called salendro by the Sundanese) is a pentatonic (five tone) scale, one of the two most common scales used in Indonesian gamelan music. ...

	Pelog selisir ( file info)
	The pelog selisir scale, played on a gangsa.
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Image File history File links Gnome-speakernotes. ... Image File history File links Pelog. ... A gangsa is a type of metallophone which is used a lot in Balinese and Javanese Gamelan music. ...

Since the tuning varies so widely from island to island, village to village, and even gamelan to gamelan, it is difficult to characterize in terms of intervals, but a rough approximation in terms of 9-tone equal temperament is: Equal temperament is a scheme of musical tuning in which the octave is divided into a series of equal steps (equal frequency ratios). ...

 | | | | | | | | | | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 pelog lima nem barang bem gulu dada pelog 

Though the full pelog scale has seven tones, usually only a five-tone subset is used (see the similar Western concept of mode). In fact, many gamelan instruments physically lack keys for two of the tones. For example, Gamelan gong kebyar instruments have no keys for barang or dada, because gong kebyar music is always played in the pelog selisir subset (tones 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6; heard in the audio example above). Other genres such as Gamelan Surakarta and Gamelan degung use different subsets. In music, a mode is an ordered series of musical intervals, which, along with the key or tonic, define the pitches. ... Gamelan gong kebyar is a modern style or genre of Balinese gamelan music. ... A typical large, double gamelan in contemporary Solo (Surakarta) will include, in the sléndro set, one saron panerus (or saron peking), two saron barang (music), one or two saron demung, one gender panerus, one gender barung, one slenthem (or gender panembung), one bonang panerus and one bonang barung (each... Gamelan Degung is a Sundanese musical ensemble that utilises a subset of modified gamelan instruments with a particular mode of pelog scale. ...

External link

• The gamelan pelog scale of Central Java as an example of a non-harmonic musical scale