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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
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