5 Apr
2007
5 Apr
'07
6:20 p.m.
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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