-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGFWDZe8HF+6xeOIcRAtOZAKDTEvPXSbBkC4jSvaOPTnCki46XtwCg2FZQ t1cMifqs/YOP/UExa4PTLlY= =QrZC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
