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. -- FA Follie! Follie! Delirio vano è questo ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
