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

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:57:32PM -0400, Charles Linart wrote:

> The Western scale is only seven notes.  Ever heard of an octave?  The
> Eastern (pentatonic) scale has five notes.
> 
> If notes are notes only because I've been "conditioned" for them, why
> do the same notes show up in music all over the world? 

Simple fact is they don't. 

> Probably has something to do with the limitations of the human
> voice and the human ear.

Not at all. People from some other cultures have no problem at
all singing notes and intervals that don't exists in Western music.

> Whatever the explanation, the bushman and Mozart incorporate the
> same 12 fundamental harmonics in their music.

No they don't. And there is nothing 'fundamental' to these 12 tones.

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FA

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