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Balinese captions, they are not listed in the present Synopsis of Javanese literature. Drawings of figures possessing a deep significance in religion, images of gods and goddesses, and magic figures (in Javanese called: rajahs), are sometimes real works of art, manifestations of the talents of the designers. So are kutas, figures mainly con sisting of combinations of stylized letters, used as charms. Rajahs are found both in pre-Islamic and in Muslim texts on magic, though they are mostly of pre-Islamic origin. The term küta has not been found in Islamic texts. References to relevant manuscripts can be found in the General Index under the catchwords rajah and küta. 42.110 Pictures, polychrome drawings on paper, mural decoration, popular art, North Coast, partly way at} style, partly naturalistic. cod. 8496. 42.120 Captions of polychrome pictures in Yogyakarta albums, on Court life, originally collection Moens, naturalistic style: cod. 6684, 6759, 6792. 42.130 Balinese pictures on palmleaf, illus trations of Javanese-Balinese texts. cod. REM 2661-2, REM 3405-16 (= 10.977), RtMLV 50479, dHMvO 53657. 42.500 Javanese music, both instrumen tal (gamelan orchestra) and vocal, has scales which differ from European and Indian music. Dutch scholars interested in musico logy, first professor Land, after him Brandts Buys and Kunst (v. J. Kunst, “Music in “Java, its theory and its technique”, The Hague, 1949) explored the structure of Ja vanese music and learned to distinguished the sléndro and pêlog scales. Javanese musi cians, learning the art from their masters

orally and by imitation, seldom found it necessary to write special treatises on music. In the twentieth century, partly under in fluence of Dutch lovers of music, partly for educational purposes, some Javanese books on gamelan music and singing have been published. Different systems of noting music, some by means of notes, mostly by numbers, were invented (see J. S. Brandts Buys, Het “Javaanse Toon-cijferschrift”, Djawa vol. 20, 1940). In Bali, music was noted especially for the singing of poems in the so-called tëqahan metres. In principle all Javanese texts written in tëqahan and macapat metres (v. 46.250) were meant to be sung or at least to be chanted, and all metres have their own tunes (or sometimes several possible tunes, see 00050—00070). It is a fact that music, both instrumental and vocal, especially in connection with dan cing and the theatre (wayat)), plays a pro minent part in Javanese civilization. Refer ences to music are found in many Javanese texts, and in complete textbooks of wayaq plays the gëndiqs, pieces of gamelan music to be played with or between the scenes, are carefully indicated. Under the catchwords music, gendiv,, songs, dance, way an, and notes (musical), references to> texts supplying in formation on these subjects can be found in the General Index. 42.510 Notes on gamelan music, Javanese- Balinese prose: cod. 9502 (Pupuh Genclit) Got}, Krt 879). 42.520 Didactic poem on Javanese music, gamelan, wayat) and dancing, Yogyakarta: cod. 6516 (Gendii}). 42.530 Musical notes, Kawruh Krawitan Jawi, 1915: cod. 8652-b.