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| '''Shalia''' ([[Shalian]]: ''Shalıarjów'tıowikh'' /ʃælʲəˈdʒəʊʔtʲəwɪx/ lit. 'Shalı country') is a country in Eastern Txapoalli. Its official language is [[Shalian]].
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| ==Music==
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| ===Instruments===
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| The most important instrument in Shalian music is the human voice. Instruments such as guitars, Talman fiddles/violins, pianos, ocarinas, and various percussions are also used.
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| Vocal polyphony (most often unaccompanied) is an important part of Shalian music, especially in coming of age parties, festivities, and funerals. Troupes of singers are trained from a young age to harmonize, vocalize rhythms, clap, snap their fingers and make various gestures. Sung music reflects the glottal stops, stress accent and long-short rhythms of the Shalian language.
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| Solo vocal music is most often unaccompanied and improvised, or remembered as folk songs.
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| ===Tuning===
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| Shalian music is based on [http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/paperspdf/Erlich-22.pdf decatonic scales], which are built on
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| # 7-limit tempered pentatonic scales which are commonly used to build tension, and
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| # septimal tetrads (esp. voicings of 4:5:6:7) which may be used as harmonic resolutions.
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| Old Shalian and Idosian sources describe a just intonation system based on ratios of 3 and 5, which was much like the system of 22 shrutis described in early Indian works.
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| When tetrachords from Hetom became popular, Idosian scholar ___ tried to extend the early 22-note system to make it more compatible with playing various tetrachords found in Hetomic music theory. The result was a scale of 34 notes per octave.
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| As Shalian music embraced vocal polyphony it saw a move away from tetrachords and towards more harmonic, chord-based sounds. Emphasizing JI ratios of 7 became desirable. Thus fixed pitch instruments were tuned to 22-note well-tempered scales with good harmonic sevenths. Modern Shalian music is standardized to 22-tone equal temperament, which does not always reflect musical reality exactly, as unaccompanied Shalian polyphonic vocal music is intoned more accurately.
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