unnecessary to particularize, * is composed in a
common enharmonic scale. The tunes which I
have selected are all in simple common time.
Some of the cadences remind us of Scots music for
the bagpipe; others in the minor key, have the
flat seventh instead of the leading note or sharp
seventh,—one of the indications of antiquity. In
many of the airs the recurrence of the same passages
is artful and ingenious. The irregularity of
the rhythm or measure, and the reiteration of the
same sound, are characteristic of oriental music.
The melodies are in general wild, plaintive, and
interesting.” It is almost unnecessary to add,
that the Indian islanders are unacquainted with
the art of writing music ; the tunes, of which
there are a great variety, are handed down from
memory.
In the plates accompanying this work will be
found the scales or gamuts of the principal instruments
of percussion, with five Javanese tunes, and
one Malay air, selected Jby Dr Crotch, to which
are added, by himself, the basses and chords.
* The difficulties here alluded to are, in our present state
of information, believed to be the consequence of some errors
which had found their way into the original manuscript
furnished to Dr Crotch.
S c a l e o f the Gambang- Kayu or wooden Staccado
The Bonang- or Kromo . Note o f the Gong-.
Note o f .the
Cymbal
Bandi Lori
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