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From: elkies@osgood.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: gamelan tunings
Keywords: pelog, slendro, gamelan
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Date: 20 Nov 89 20:11:30 GMT
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In article <6534@merlin.usc.edu> alves@aludra.usc.edu (Bill Alves) writes:
>[Much interesting stuff deleted]
>[...,] Bukofzer (who sought to prove that slendro was
>originally a subset of pelog and therefore younger),

The reasoning escapes me here; even if at one time slendro was
a subset of pelog, why couldn't that just as easily mean that pelog
is a younger extension of slendro (as the Western chromatic scale
is of the diatonic one)?

--Noam D. Elkies (elkies@zariski.harvard.edu)
  Dept. of Mathematics, Harvard University