In its fullest form, the large Balinese gamelan of from thirty to forty musicians is organized to sound, at different pitch levels :
the nuclear melody, limited to a one-octave range
the stressing at regular intervals of the nuclear melody, generally one tone in four
expansion of the nuclear melody into full melody with a range of two to three octaves
doubling and paraphrasing of c) in the octave above
ornamental figuration of the melody
the colotomy or punctuation of the melody
the drumming which conducts the gamelan
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