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Pelog Scale
Original title: ペロッグ(pelog)」音階
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Pelog is a major 7-note scale used in Indonesian gamelan music (in practice, 5 notes are often selected from it), meaning “beautiful.” Characterized by distinctive unequal intervals combining whole tones and semitones, it produces an exotic sound resembling the Okinawan scale and is prevalent in Bali and elsewhere.
Main characteristics:
Tone series: 1 octave consists of 7 notes (usually 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), but in 1 piece, 5 notes are often selected and played according to the pathet (mode).
Intervals: Unlike Western equal temperament, small intervals (around 100 cents) and large intervals (around 300 cents) coexist, making an unequal-interval scale with 100–300-cent spacing.
Resonance: a slightly poignant or exotic sound resembling the Okinawan (Ryukyuan) scale.
Regional differences: Intervals are not fixed, because villages differ in their sense of intervals.
Difference from slendro: contrasted with gamelan’s other representative scale, “slendro (an evenly spaced 5-note scale),” pelog mainly consists of 7 notes (or 5 selected from them).
Many gamelans heard at tourist destinations, such as Bali's gamelan gong kebyar, use this pelog scale.
ペロッグ(Pelog)は、インドネシアのガムラン音楽で使われる主要な7音音階(実質はそこから5音を選ぶことが多い)で、「美しい」という意味を持つ。全音と半音が混在する独特の不等間隔な音程関係が特徴で、沖縄音階に似たエキゾチックな響きを生む、バリ島などで主流の音階である。
主な特徴:
音列: 1オクターブを7つの音で構成(通常1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)するが、1曲の中ではパテット(旋法)に基づき5音を選び出して演奏することが多い。
音程: 西洋音楽の平均律とは異なり、小さい音程(100セント前後)と大きい音程(300セント前後)が混在し、100〜300セント間隔の不等間隔音階である。
響き: 沖縄音階(琉球音階)に似た、少し切ない、あるいはエキゾチックな響きを持つ。
地域差: 村落ごとに音程感覚が異なるため、固定的な音程ではない。
スレンドロとの違い: ガムランのもう一つの代表的な音階「スレンドロ(5音の平均的な音階)」と対比され、ペロッグは主に7音(またはその中の5音)で構成される。
バリ島のガムラン・ゴング・クビヤルなど、観光地で耳にする多くのガムランは、このペロッグ音階を使用している。
Source updated 2026-02-21 · Snapshot 2026-10-08
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- Pelog SelisirComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.405 · shared title, text, tags and references
- Chromatic ScaleComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.147 · shared title, text, tags and references