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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, kanteles and various percussion instruments are also used.
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| The Shalian kantele (''wáirdıan'') is traditionally tuned to a 10 note scale but the 10 notes can be changed on the fly. Most modern ''wáirdıan''s have levers fixed to 22edo while some (used for "avant-garde" music) can make finer adjustments.
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| Vocal polyphony (''sar-nóoslownth'' 'group singing') is an important part of Shalian music, especially in ceremonies such as coming of age parties, weddings, 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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| There is also a tradition of orally transmitted folk songs (''amár-nóoslownth'' 'mother's song'). Composed solo vocal music (''jái'mer-nóoslownth'' 'exquisite singing'), to the contrary, was traditionally upper class music as opposed to folk music.
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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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| The scales are modes (possibly with chromatic modifications) of
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| *pentachordal: G G#v A Bv C C#v D Ev F F#v G
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| *symmetric: G G#v A Bv C C#v D Eb^ F F#v G
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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, Shalian scholar Bów'ti Asínsim ("Bów'ti the Swuntsim") 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 and sometimes uses bends.
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| ====Consonance and dissonance====
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| Consonant:
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| *perfect fifth and fourth
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| *5/4 and 6/5
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| *9/8~8/7 and 7/6
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| *tritone or half-octave
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| Semi-consonant:
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| *16/15 and 10/9
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| Dissonant:
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| *9/7
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| *11/8 and 16/11
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| *1-step and 21-step intervals
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| Triads may be considered stable in some contexts but they are more often used to "modulate" rather than to stabilize.
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| Of the decatonic 1-4-7-9 tetrads, 4:5:6:7 is considered the most consonant tetrad, followed by the minor tetrad 1/(4:5:6:7), followed by other types.
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