Re: CHAT: Philip Glass Knockin' (was Re: CHAT: Re: Knock and knock-knock

--- Danny Wier <dawier@...> wrote:

> Ob-Conlang/Conculture: As intellectually and artistically advanced as
> my Techians are, they still tend to gravitate toward the traditional
> Ethiopian pentatonic scale.
And as intellectually and morally advanced as I think I am, I come off
sounding like a total redneck ignoramus.  (I happen to be an *educated
redneck*, thank you.  I have a real high school diploma.)  I didn't
mean to say Ethiopian music was un-advanced, as though music by dead
white guys is any better except from a classical Eurocentric view.  I
meant to say that Techians just like pentatonic scales, much in the way
East Africans and Celts do.  Actually, Techians like diatonic scales,
but music often vacillates between 7-tone and 5-tone.

Actually, modern music is based on 6-tone and 8-tone, thanks to blues
influence in the US.  The former is the pentatonic scale plus tritone,
the traditional "blues scale".  The latter is the former plus a note
halfway between the 1 1/2 tone skips, i.e. 3/4 tones -- the "mean tone
dorian" right?  (I think we discussed that briefly on conculture or
conlang...)

This too is better suited for conculture.  I'm getting my lists
backwards again.

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Daniel A. Wier
Computer Geek Extraordinaire
Lufkin, Texas USA
ICQ#: 1651462
IRC Nick: LudwigVan on EFNet

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