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The drawback to this explanation is that the diatonic scale is 10,000 years older than the "circle of fifths". So it presumably had some appeal to musicians as
by nix 16y ago
The drawback to this explanation is that the diatonic scale is 10,000 years older than the "circle of fifths". So it presumably had some appeal to musicians as well as to music theorists.
- dmoney 16y agoWhere do you find 10,000 year old music?
- nix 16y agoYou infer it from the existence of 10,000 year old musical instruments. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_scale#Prehistory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_scale#Prehistory - which also says that the circle of fifths was described much earlier than I thought.