slendro

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Scrabble points: 8
Words With Friends: 10
Letters: 7

Definition of slendro

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(uncountable)A pentatonic scale, the older of the two most common scales used in Indonesian gamelan music, the other being pelog.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦱ꧀ꦭꦺꦤ꧀ꦢꦿꦺꦴ (sléndro). In Javanese the term is said to derive either from "Sailendra", the name of the ruling family in the eighth and ninth centuries when Borobudur was built, or from its earlier being given by the god Sang Hyang Hendra.

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