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The canonical video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA Some people will naively say "All m
by Kye 2y ago
The canonical video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA
Some people will naively say "All music has pentatonic! Universal!" but ignore vital cultural context. One example in the video is ragas: they can look a lot like Western scales and modes, but they have a time and context.
Western music also has a time and context, but it doesn't stand out as much to us unless someone goes full ham breaking that context like with the Imperial March in a Major mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9MShtCg4fk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9MShtCg4fk
It changes the mood from "this is the bad guys!" to something more positive and triumphant.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoThere are also several traditions that have scales/modes where certain note sequences (typical pairs) are only "allowed" in one direction (i.e you can play #3 after #1 if you're ascending from #1 to #3, but not the other way around). This adds additional confusion to comparing scales/modes between cultures. We do have at least one such mode/scale in the western european classical tradition, but it is not widely used.