The Order Of The Nadas That Are Developed In A Single Way, What Are They?

Illustration of the sequence of notes arranged in stages. (Unsplash)

YOGYAKARTA - In the art of music, we understand the existence of a sequence of notes arranged in stages. This sequence of notes is given the term "tone ladder". It contains a harmonious collection of notes. The harmony of the tone is created because there are rules in these notes. Check out the discussion of the sequence of notes arranged in stages below.

Broadly speaking, the magnitude of the tone ladder can be divided into 2, including:

In the book Nada and Irama, M Noor Said explains that major diatonis charts are notes with distances one and a half. We can find the use of these notes on western music. These notes are compiled with a combination of semi-ton intervals between existing tones.

The distance between the 2 adjacent notes is called semitone, and two semitones are called tones. The sign kres (#) is a tone played one semitone higher than the original tone, and the sign mol (b) means the tone played one semitone lower than the original tone.

The diatonic notes have 7 main notes and each of the main notes has a harmonious family relationship.

The character of this tone ladder is that it is excited, cheerful, and begins and ends with a do = C tone, has an interval pattern of 1, 1, 1/2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1/2.

In acoustic science, the diatonic tone ladder is also referred to as an international barrel, because the diatonic tone ladder has standard and fixed tone frequency specifications.

Different from the tone ladders in certain ethnicities, for example, gamelan instruments from Java and Sasando NTT. However, to make it more flexible, currently many ethnic instruments are interacted with diatonic systems. This is done so that the tone can be collaborated with contemporary instruments.

Broadly speaking, the diatonic tone ladder consists of 2 types, including:

The major echo is also called the diatonic notes, which consists of seven notes in the alphabet symbol arranged with a certain series of tone distances (whole steps and half).

Basically, in one ladder the notes consist of 7 main notes, but if someone mentions 8 notes, then the 8th is the repetition of the basic notes (tonics).

The charts arranged upwards or downwards starting from the tone of Oktav to the octav with the interval between the notes from the bottom up is 1-1-1/2-1-1-1/2.

For example, on the C Major (natural major) echo below:

C D E F G A B C'

The minor echo is a tone ladder whose composition is 1.1/1.1, 1.1. The minor echo begins and ends with the do=A tone. We can see the songs included in the minor notes: sad, sad, pessimistic, and melancholic.

The minor echo is formed from a series of notes from whole steps (1) and half steps (1/2) which have a composition of the tone distance of 1-1/2-1-1/2-1-1.

Below are examples in the notes of A minor Natural.

A B C D E F G A'

The natural minor notes are the notes that have 8 notes arranged starting from the tone of Saba to the octav with the interval between the notes from the bottom up is 1-1/2-1-1/2-1-1.

Therefore, the notes arranged on the original natural minor notes (original minors) are:

A B C D E F G A'

Quoted from the Music Theory Reources page, it is stated that the minor tone ladder is harmonious almost the same as the notes on the original minor tone ladder, but the 7th tone is raised by 1 semitone (half a tone) to lead tone.

The notes arranged on the natural harmonic minor notes (a minor harmonic) are as follows:

A B C D E F G# A

The meloss minor notes are the same as the original minor notes with 6th and 7th tones raised by 1 semitone (half a tone) for (asscending) and returning to the original minor at the time of descent.

The notes arranged on the natural meloss minor notes (a minor meloss) include the following:

Pentatonic notes are generally closely related to certain ethnicities or cultures, because these notes come from certain ethnicities with varying types.

Pentatonic notes basically cannot be written in general notation, because ethnic instruments produce a tone when played with hearing sensitivity from the empus of the instrument.

Pentatonic notes are aligned with the notes in the diatonic barrel. There are two types of pentatonic notes commonly found in regional music works in Indonesia in general, including:

Pelogue notes are commonly played on ethnic music songs or instruments. For example, in Java, the Java area uses a pelog tone ladder in a gamelan.

Pelog generally dominates musical works for contemporary creation art such as campursari, which makes the notes on gamelan adapted to the tones of contemporary instruments.

In the book Dictionary Musik, Banoe Ponoe explains that according to the characteristics of the charts, pelog generally depicts sad and emotional songs.

Pelog has 7 main notes but only five notes are used in their application. In Javanese gamelan, the pelog barrel consists of 7 tones that have been formed if their respective names and notations.

The pelog notes consist of three barrels, namely Laras Pelog Patet 6, Laras pelog Patet Barang, and Laras pelog Patet Lima.

Slendro is also often modified into international barrel frequency standards to be combined in contemporary musical works.

The Slendro notes are a barrel that has 5 main notes, so they are called pure pentatonics. Songs with slendro notes generally have a happy and agile nuance.

There are 3 barrels known in the slendro tone ladder, including Laras Slendro Patet Sanga, Laras Slendro Patet Nem, and Laras Slendro Patet Manyura.

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