Since the slendro scale of Indonesian gamelan music has five pitches per octave, we know that
A. it can only be used to play pitches of very low frequency.
B. it must be a variant of the blues scale with one pitch missing.
C. it is based on and identical to the Western pentatonic scale described in the chapter.
D. it is one type of pentatonic scale.
Answer: D
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