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i'm from italy, i do not speak (or write) english so good. Not yet. But i want to say i think this fact of pentatonic scale (inside everybody's head) in also thanks of all the music composed in this past century,wich is based on that scale almost toatally. Our ear usually listen about a lot of genres made with the pentatonic, since we born and grew up. A lot of generations had became adults, or old, with the blues (first of all), with rock 'n roll, with country, and with a lot of pop and other genres comes by theese. The pentatonic scale is inside our DNA not only beacause it is in the harmonic spectre of sounds, but also, particullary talking about the equal temperament, because until some centuries ago, we listen only to a few kinds of music (with temperated scales and istruments), and now, our ears are not so much sensible to little variations of tone. Look for something about this..
Today, when people listen (for example) to a third major, they prefer the one temperated (they say that is more pure and harmonic) but the rightest one is different (a little bit wane) and it seems wrong to a lot of people. this is a little proof of a great anthropological, psychoacoustical and cultural phenomenon.
Sometimes, when someone try to hear to the indian music he doesn't understand: someone doesn't like it, someone says that is not musically (like occidental melodies), someother is simply relaxed by it. This happen because they use some scales different by ours, and their instruments are not tuned up with our method and with our intervals.
sorry for my terrifying english, but i cannot shut up
your words and this site is very interesting, thanks for listening
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i'm from italy, i do not speak (or write) english so good. Not yet. But i want to say i think this fact of pentatonic scale (inside everybody's head) in also thanks of all the music composed in this past century,wich is based on that scale almost toatally. Our ear usually listen about a lot of genres made with the pentatonic, since we born and grew up. A lot of generations had became adults, or old, with the blues (first of all), with rock 'n roll, with country, and with a lot of pop and other genres comes by theese. The pentatonic scale is inside our DNA not only beacause it is in the harmonic spectre of sounds, but also, particullary talking about the equal temperament, because until some centuries ago, we listen only to a few kinds of music (with temperated scales and istruments), and now, our ears are not so much sensible to little variations of tone. Look for something about this..
Today, when people listen (for example) to a third major, they prefer the one temperated (they say that is more pure and harmonic) but the rightest one is different (a little bit wane) and it seems wrong to a lot of people. this is a little proof of a great anthropological, psychoacoustical and cultural phenomenon.
Sometimes, when someone try to hear to the indian music he doesn't understand: someone doesn't like it, someone says that is not musically (like occidental melodies), someother is simply relaxed by it. This happen because they use some scales different by ours, and their instruments are not tuned up with our method and with our intervals.
sorry for my terrifying english, but i cannot shut up
your words and this site is very interesting, thanks for listening