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TERMS AND PRINCIPLES
not widely used outside the government academies. However, you do
occasionally hear musicians outside the academies use the daminatila
syllables as a substitute for the note names barang, kenong etc.
2'2.3 Vocal tunings
One of the juicier features of Sundanese music is that the singer and rebab
or suling very often do not use the same scale as the accompanying
instruments, particularly when the latter are playing in salendro. The vocal
and instrumental parts converge at the structurally important moments; goong
and kenong. The vocal scales normally have three notes in common with the
salendro tuning: the other notes are in the cracks between the saron keys or
kacapi strings. Usually the vocal scale resembles sorog. Occasionally it is
like pelog. This is how they fit together:
salendro: