[lbo-talk] For LBO's music theory crowd

Chuck Grimes cgrimes at rawbw.com
Thu Sep 3 20:44:42 PDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 19:39 -0800, Miles Jackson wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
>
> > This is what the paper says: "All musical traditions employ a
> > relatively small set of tonal intervals for composition and
> > performance, each interval being defined by its relationship to the
> > lowest tone of the set. Such sets are called musical scales. Despite
> > some interesting variations such as the pélog scale used by Gamelan
> > orchestras in Indonesia whose metallophone instruments generate
> > nonharmonicovertones, the scales predominantly used in all cultures
> > over the centuries have used some (or occasionally all) of the 12 tonal
> > intervals that in Western musical terminology are referred to as the
> > chromatic scale (Nettl, 1956
> > ; Carterette and Kendall, 1999
> > )."
> >
> > Is this what you're saying is empirically wrong? Have Nettle and/or
> > Carterette and Kendall, about whom I know nothing, been proved fakers?
>
> You can find sources to support any argument. Based on my reading of
> anthopological evidence, I do not agree with the above sources. I
> encourage people interested in the debate to do a thorough review of the
> available evidence.
>
> Miles
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Geeze guys, thanks for clearing this up. I'll post other comments and questions on a separate post I've been working since Miles posted.

CG



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