Kepatihan notation

Kepatihan notation

Kepatihan is a type of cipher musical notation that was devised for notation of the Indonesian gamelan.

The system was devised around 1900 at the Kepatihan in Surakarta, and is sometimes said [Judith Becker: "Traditional Music in Modern Java"] to be based upon the Galin-Paris-Cheve system of 1894, it often being easy to hear the pitches 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 of slendro as do-re-mi-sol-la. However, in the pélog system pitches are simply numbered from low to high 1-7 and there is no question of interpreting these sounds diatonically. When pieces are transposed from slendro to pelog or vice versa, 4 and 7 are treated as 'accidentals' (a 4 can be used as a 'sharp' 3 (common in patet barang) or 'flat' 5 (usual in patet lima or nem), and 7 appears often as an upper neighbor tone in patet bem; a 'raised' 1 in patet barang can usually be interpreted as a modulation).

The pitches of the seven-tone pélog tuning system are designated by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7; while the five-tone slendro pitches are notated as 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. The octaves are noted by dots above and below the numbers, as in Chinese jianpu, although of course the pitches do not correspond. The rhythms are noted by beams or lines above notes indicating half the rhythmic value, and dots in where the notes go ("pin") indicating either rests or extentions. Melismas and slured bowing are noted by lines underneath the numbers. Colotomic instruments are indicated by diacritical marks (a circle for gong ageng, parentheses for gong suwukan, ^ for kenong, ˇ for kempul, + for ketuk, and - for kempyang), or are omitted as they can be determined from the bentuk, or form.

Ordinarily the system only notates the balungan (the core melody as it is played by the sarons) and gerongan (choral parts). However, for pedagogical purposes, other patterns, such as the melodic formulas sekaran and cengkok used on the panerusan instruments may be notated.

Kepatihan is widely used in ethnomusicological studies of the gamelan, sometimes accompanied by transcriptions in to Western staff notation with approximated pitches.

ee also

* Musical notation#Musical notation of Indonesia

External links

* [http://www.gamelan.org/AGI/software.html Software available for kepatihan notation]


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