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Interesting, I was not aware of any scales without octaves. I suppose a solution here could to just ignore the octave part by having only a "single" octave.
by BillyDM 5y ago
Interesting, I was not aware of any scales without octaves.
I suppose a solution here could to just ignore the octave part by having only a "single" octave.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoNot just somewhat arbitrarily invented scales from the west ... in Byzantine musical culture, they do not have or assume the concept of "octave equivalence". That is, doubling the frequency of a sound does not, in classical Byzantine music, constitute "the same note". Byzantine musical culture is wonderful in so many ways. They rarely notate pitches, preferring to notate intervals, which as anyone who has ever tranposed a song from one western major scale to another will understand, is far more of a deep representation of a melody than pitches.