5 Apr
2007
5 Apr
'07
4:19 p.m.
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(a)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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