AN attempt to reconstruct the Soft Diatonic mode leads to the following nine-note scale, which combines perfectly with the diatonic scale with the exception of F (3: 4),—the key-note, dominant ...

In the famous musical, The Sound Of Music, Maria sings: "When you sing you begin with do-re-mi." These three notes are the start of the diatonic scale.

"Slendro and pelog do not map onto Western diatonic scales," says Vi King Lim, leader of Langen Suka, a gamelan group based in Sydney. Lim describes slendro as "five notes within the octave that ...