5 Apr
2007
5 Apr
'07
6:50 p.m.
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:08:25PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 13:57 -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? Probably has
> something to do with the limitations of the human voice and the human
> ear. Whatever the explanation, the bushman and Mozart incorporate the
> same 12 fundamental harmonics in their music. The sound of a yak
> belch can be part of a rhythm, but it is utterly useless as a
> component of melody -- unless it happens by chance to be a note.
Ooh.... yak belch!
Someone get me a sample... I will make music out of it.
That might make one funny rhythmic element.
- -ken
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