Music is not all made from the same 12 notes.

[bottlenecker]

Roza Eskenazi

 

[blowtorch]

I'm transported to Parthenon's on State by that

Mmmmmm....gyros

 

[bottlenecker]

I'm transported to Parthenon's on State by that

Mmmmmm....gyros

Oh yeah. I just realized what a big musical influence gyros have had on me.

 

[oldunc]

No, it's not;

 

[buster poser]

Oft cited, but still incredible to listen to



Oh and this guy

 

[oldunc]

Then there's always;

 

[schmee]

I like that stuff.

 

[Mjark]

Maybe not but this is.

 

[loopfinding]

Maybe not but this is.

Yes of course, Greek. But even if we are going further into Arabic music (which we down here all steal from), it’s usually not really 24TET because the modes follow some diatonicity with some liberties on “sour” note choice here or there. In OP example it strikes me more like “blue note.”

OTOH, east of the Himalayas, you get some real alien (to us) stuff. 5-7 notes to an octave. Likely none of us on this side has any conception of these true pitches:

 

[ndcaster]

1:20



pretty interesting music

european music emancipated itself from the drone, which was a Copernican move

we can all learn from each other

 

[loopfinding]

Oft cited, but still incredible to listen to

It’s still solidly western/euro. It’s just weird harmony. But this stuff absolutely rips. It is like the best euro folk music along with flamenco, I love it.

 

[Cadillac_Mike]

Wait, there's more notes than A, D, and E??

 

[teletimetx]

 

[buster poser]

It’s still solidly western/euro. It’s just weird harmony. But this stuff absolutely rips. It is like the best euro folk music along with flamenco, I love it.

I guess that’s true, I think of all those those quarter tone trills and stuff they do but it does resolve strangely. Lots of seconds and fourths

 

[oldunc]

The western tempered scale has not by any means been universally adopted- a lot of music from around the world may be based on a twelve note octave, but not the twelve we're used to. For instance bagpipes use an untempered scale, which is why they can be so jarring to our ears- an untempered major third is a particularly evil sounding interval. Harry Partch based his 43 note scale on the scales of Gamelan music, which can be pretty impenetrable. There are two basic tunings systems that use unequal intervals, then the instruments are tuned slightly off from each other to produce beats, similar to the Vox Humana on an organ. It can be difficult to get your ears wrapped around; it can also be very rewarding.

 

[loopfinding]

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[bottlenecker]

Maybe not but this is.

My example in the OP is not.

 

[Skyhook]

Wait, there's more notes than A, D, and E??

Yes, but they're all used to make up the chords A, D and E so don't worry about it.

 

[bottlenecker]

Yes of course, Greek. But even if we are going further into Arabic music (which we down here all steal from), it’s usually not really 24TET because the modes follow some diatonicity with some liberties on “sour” note choice here or there. In OP example it’s more like “blue note.”

I thought 24TET was just something westerners use to approximate arabic music.
Turkish Makam uses 9 comma points per whole tone, so 54 divisions of an octave.
Roza Eskenazi's music has lots of turkish influence and bits of makam.

 

[suthol]

Wait, there's more notes than A, D, and E??

C, effing G