The Scots and Welsh are called Englishmen {orang Inggris) by Indonesians. Similarly the people of Sunda, or West Java, who inhabit the Westernmost third of the island of Java, are sometimes wrongly referred to by foreigners as Javanese. Sundanese culture, language and music are quite distinct from those of the Javanese people of Central and East Java - although of course there are also elements in common. In Sunda there is a bewildering diversity of musical genres. This handbook is concerned with just three of these: gamelan sal6ndro/pelog, gamelan degung and tembang Sunda. The intention is not scholarly, but rather.
