Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!mcnc!ebs From: ebs@mcnc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Alternate scales Message-ID: <1735@mcnc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jul-83 11:32:43 EDT Article-I.D.: mcnc.1735 Posted: Fri Jul 15 11:32:43 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jul-83 13:40:07 EDT Lines: 12 The suggestion that a particular tempered scale (not 12 notes) would sound "horrible" just because it doesn't match the LIMITED system which westerners have used for a few centuries is, at best, narrow-minded. Another scale may sound different or weird, but there is no absolute standard of horrible. I would wager that a number (besides 12) could be found which would produce as interesting music as the 12 note scale. I'll agree that it's probably not 16, but that's as far as I'll go. For an idea of what alternate scale music may sound like, listen to some Persian music. On the American side, listen to Marion Brown's "Geechee Recollections" (not punk, but jazz). ebs (uncc)