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- Mar 24, 2002
- Location
- Halfway between the gutter and stars
Well you've settled into these scales by listening to music, and that gives you a premonition of how things "should" go in terms of melody and harmony. This is what gives different scales (lydican, arabic etc.) their special qualities, we instantly connect them to a certain kind of cultural background or a feeling in our heads. If you'd never heard music before that off note wouldn't sound that much off I guess. Just like in the early days of orchestral music, the tunings were so different that the scales were practically different to our modern ones, still the people regarded them as normal.
There's a whole lot more to it, but it's scientific research stuff and I'm not really up to date with it.
There's a whole lot more to it, but it's scientific research stuff and I'm not really up to date with it.
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