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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: May I offer a different perspective? posted by John Marks on March 11, 2011 at 16:54:54:
Ronald Stevenson maintains that the essential strengths of African and Eastern music are rhythm and melody respectively, noting that the Indian scale contains 22 notes to our 12, and that each in their strengths makes western music seem undeveloped. On the other hand, he sees the development of harmony and polyphony as the area in which western music has shone.
But then, you choose Indian as an example of sophisticated rhythm and gamelan, if I read you rightly, as one of sophisticated harmony - so maybe RS is not quite on the money after all.
Still, I wonder how it is that Japanese, Chinese, Persian, Balkan, Scots and other musical traditions have developed with so many bum notes and wrong stresses in them. Those who play and habitually listen to these things don't seem to notice the gross errors of pitch and rhythm involved. It's got me beat.
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Follow Ups
- Of course you may, John - k-k-k-kenny 21:26:21 03/11/11 (2)
- "Those who play and habitually listen to these things don't seem to notice the gross errors…" - David Aiken 23:14:28 03/11/11 (1)
- Couldn't agree more - k-k-k-kenny 17:33:23 03/12/11 (0)
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