140,617
edits
User:IlL/Spare pages 1/79: Difference between revisions
m
no edit summary
m (→Scales) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
mNo edit summary Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
* a religious chanting tradition with much ornamentation | * a religious chanting tradition with much ornamentation | ||
* something really weird and independent from [[Cuam]] music's weirdness | * something really weird and independent from [[Cuam]] music's weirdness | ||
== Instruments == | |||
* a shruti box that plays 5-note drones for guiding singing | |||
* "talking" drums, flutes and fretless bowed strings | |||
== Scales == | == Scales == | ||
Zzean music is abstractly based on a pentatonic framework, onto which the five tone levels of Zzean are mapped. Seven-note scales are viewed as ways to ornament 5-note scales. However, not all Zzean pentatonic scales are octave-equivalent. | Zzean music is abstractly based on a pentatonic framework, onto which the five tone levels of Zzean are mapped. Seven-note scales are viewed as ways to ornament 5-note scales. However, not all Zzean pentatonic scales are octave-equivalent. | ||