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Thread #134034   Message #3046126
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
04-Dec-10 - 07:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: Fun with music theory
Subject: RE: BS: Fun with music theory
"The smallest scale is two notes tuned a perfect 5th apart. To be able to complete the octave, we next need five notes—a pentatonic scale. The next scale in the sequence would be the diatonic scale of seven notes. It is obtained by adding the two-note scale and pentatonic scale together. However, we can only play a diatonic scale in one key unless we temper it. When we temper, however, we lose tonic relationships in that scale since the notes are equally spaced apart musically. So we must next add the diatonic and pentatonic scales together to obtain a chromatic scale of twelve notes which enables us to play the diatonic 7-note scale in 12 different keys. "

This nonsense only can be forced to make any 'sense' (as per the Law of Fives) if you only know very little about Western Music, and not much about Music History (1 root 12 tempered scales NOT being practiced by the Ancients from which Western Music drew its origins!)! It is meaningless in Oriental and Indian microtonal music!

Stop copy/pasting huge quantities of stuff that you quite clearly do NOT understand the nonsense and distortion of! There are far too many competent trained musicians who do understand musical theory, and not only just Western Music theory, on this forum to allow you to get away with posting musical rubbish to allow you to pretend you actually know what you are talking about. There are plenty of other places on the net that will let you big note yourself with nonsense.

Unless, of course, that you are only a member here (and posting nonsensical rubbish) to allow you to infiltrate and steal personal information for nefarious purposes. IMO, this is how such things as Facebook and other sites are getting this personal info to steal identities.