Re: [LAU] The Psychology of Music

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Stephen Stubbs <fartreader@email-addr-hiddenwrote:

>
> {Stephen}: The Ancient Greeks did not have major keys nor minor keys.
> The 'modes' used by the Medieval European monks were not the same as the
> original modes of the Ancient Greeks. A great deal was lost in the
> translation, or perhaps it was due to fragmentary sources.
>
>
http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/

specifically: http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/scalesdir.txt

You will find that there are over 4000 diferent scales there.

the notion that there are only a handful of scales can be a moderately
accurate as a description of typical musical practice at a given point in
time in a given culture.

but on the other hand it also is a wildly inaccurate and simplistic idea
that robs humanity of a good part of its cultural heritage.

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Received on Tue Feb 19 16:15:05 2013