Tracks
01. Debussy’s Nuages in the tuning of Gamelan ‘Kanyut Mesem’, Mangkunegaran. Eleven tones slendro-pelog
02. Debussy’s Nuages in the tuning of Gamelan ‘Pengawesari Telagamuncar’, Pakualaman. Nine tones slendro-pelog
03. Debussy’s Nuages in the tuning of Gamelan ‘Taruna Mekar’, Tunjuk, Bali. Seven tones from the kebyar and ‘pendro’
04. Debussy’s Nuages in the tuning of Gamelan Sekati ‘Guntur Madu’, Kraton Yogyakarta. The seven-tone pelog
05. Debussy’s Nuages in the tuning of Gamelan ‘Surak Kancilbelik’, Kraton Yogyakarta. Six tones slendro-pelog
06. Debussy’s Nuages in the tuning of Gamelan ‘Sadatpengasih Kuntulwiranten’, RRI Yogyakarta. Eight tones slendro-pelog
07. Debussy’s Nuages in the tuning of Gamelan ‘Udan Arum’, Mangkunegaran. The seven-tone pelog
08. Debussy’s Nuages in the tuning of Gamelan ‘Konservatori Karawitan III’, Surakarta. The seven-tone pelog
09. Debussy’s Nuages in the tuning of Gamelan ‘Landung’, U. G. M., Yogyakarta. The five-tone slendro
10. Debussy’s Nuages in the tuning of Gamelan ‘Montebello’, Castellamonte, Italy. The eleven tones slendro and pelog
Ten Gamelan Tunings for Debussy’s Nuages
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Booklet
Ten Gamelan Tunings for Debussy’s Nuages
The gamelan, heritage and splendor of Javanese and Balinese musical cultures, denotes both the music itself and the ‘instrument’, that is, the whole orchestra made of metallophones and other types of sound generators. In a comparison with the music of the West, the differences are remarkable, starting with the timbres of the sounds, but perhaps the most striking difference concerns scales and tuning. Unlike the Western scale with its twelve equidistant tones in the octave, the gamelan features two scales, one of five and one of seven notes.