The study of the cultural aspects of music.
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Why do minor keys sound “sad”?
Oftentimes major keys are called "happy" and minor keys are "sad". Why is this? Is it universal across cultures that use these scales? Do similar connotations exist in other scale systems?
(If this ...
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Where should I go to learn about non-Western scales (particularly Turkish & Greek)
Apart from Turkey and Greece, I mean.
I'm looking for fairly abstract musicological and comparative descriptions, not "how to play"-style information. Particularly interested in departures from the ...
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Differences between the concept of Scales , Raagas, and Thaaths?
Western music has Scales (major, minor, etc.) while Eastern Music primarily has a large number of Raagas derived from some basic Taaths. Both these groups represent sets of notes on which actual song ...
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Is there any open source notation software for indian shrutis?
I would like to write down Shruti music but I wasn't able to find notation software for that.
Do you know any?
edit: Live Playback would be a great feature.
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At the research of some folklore russian accordion tunes
The other day I was watching a video documentary about the discovering of frozen mammoths in the Siberian tundra. At some moment there was a tune in I really enjoyed.
It was mainly accordion, rather ...
