Re:Music theory for nerds (2016)
by dekhn on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @11:14AM
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No. Go look at Ragas in indian music.
“Ragas are precise melody forms.
A raga is not a mere scale nor is it a mode. Each Raga has it’s own ascending and descending movement. And those subtle touches and uses of micro tones and stresses on particular notes like this…”
Microtones are less than the difference between two adjacent pitches in western scales and are discernable, even to people like me who have a hard time telling adjacent pitches apart.
“Ragas are precise melody forms. A raga is not a mere scale nor is it a mode. Each Raga has it’s own ascending and descending movement. And those subtle touches and uses of micro tones and stresses on particular notes like this…”
Microtones are less than the difference between two adjacent pitches in western scales and are discernable, even to people like me who have a hard time telling adjacent pitches apart.