slendro

noun

slen·​dro ˈslen-drō 

: a pentatonic tuning employed for Javanese gamelans that divides the octave into five roughly similar intervals

Any pair of notes in the slendro scale, it is generally agreed, sound satisfactory together.

—Richard Pickvance, A Gamelan Manual, 2005

compare pelog

Word History

First Known Use

1930, in the meaning defined above

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