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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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