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music scale (was Re: yu-bIm-'egh



>Incidentally, Western music fits a twelve-tone tuning system. Since a
>pentatonic scale has five notes, that leaves seven, or a little over half a
>dozen. And since all 12 pitches are not often found in a melody, it is
>likely that less than 6 pitches not in a pentatonic scale can be found in
>*any* melody at all...
>
>Qermaq

Frequency distribution fortunately doesn't have to map at all to any other
scale. Refer to http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html to get
an idea of what I mean. If Klingon music were based on any scale other than
our own, it would sound to us (even to most traditionally trained musicians)
as out of tune, but merely would be harmonizing over different frequency ratios.



Guido



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