[lbo-talk] Chuck's Cassirer posts

[Miles Jackson]

Michael Pollak wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Dennis Claxton wrote:
>
>   
>>> The orderliness of nature is a reality proven by Pythagoras when he 
>>> discovered that the musical scale (a fact of nature) is structured 
>>> according to simple numerical ratios.
>>>       
>> What is _the_ musical scale?
>>     
>
> The one defined by those ratios, 2:1 (octave) 3:2 (fifth) 4:3 (fourth). 
> AFAIK, you find them in independently discovered all over the world and at 
> the basis of every musical tradition.  
This is inaccurate.  Many musical scales do not include the fourth and 
the fifth.

Miles