[LAU] Re: That must suck. For me it's about beauty--musicisjustone path

[Charles Linart]

When I jammed with traditional musicians in Thailand, Korea, and
Japan, they literally cringed if I squeezed out a "fa" or a "ti" in
their do-re-mi-so-la constructions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale

Would be interested to learn of more "notes" in subcontinent music.
Any references?   The Indian and Pakistani melodies I've heard sound
pretty confined to scales and notes -- exotic to be sure, but still
the same basic sonic building blocks.

There are a lot of different tunings and a lot of (approaching
infinite) different resonances, but it's still the same 12 notes in at
least 99 percent of cases.  Maybe Australian aboriginal music falls
outside of the normal notes/scales, but I've never heard anything else
that does, including Tibetan singing bowls.


On 4/5/07, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 12:34 -0400, Charles Linart wrote:
> > There are 12 frequencies of sound that are recognized by the human ear
> > as musical notes.
>
> the indian subcontinent as well as most of south east asia will be
> amazed to hear this. they use and recognize vastly more "notes" than the
> west.
>
> not to mention all those just intonation freaks living in the west,
> whose particular set of "12 frequencies" are notably different from the
> equal temperament school.
>
>
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