Literature talk:Little Red Riding Hood: Difference between revisions
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Modern performances of Wiobian traditional music often default to 15 tone equal temperament; that is, every step of the 15-note scale is spaced exactly equally. However, historically the tuning had more nuances. | Modern performances of canonical Wiobian traditional music often default to 15 tone equal temperament; that is, every step of the 15-note scale is spaced exactly equally. However, historically the tuning had more nuances. | ||
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Traditional Wiobian music is melodious with relatively sparse accompaniment, often having two melodic voices in counterpoint for high-class music, though more recent music often calls for more dense orchestration. (read: cobbled together from gamelan, Southeast Asian and Baroque influences) The music is based on a scale with fifteen notes per octave, that is capable of both small movements in melody and harmonic shifts ranging from the subtle to the dramatic. A wealth of inharmonic instruments such as metallophones, marimbas, cymbals and drums serve as ingredients for this sonic landscape. However also valued are harmonic instruments (such as stringed instruments e.g. the plucked or bowed zither-like Tünd, the strummed and fretted Þaus-Bung, and the bowed Nisch&Ker; as well as fixed-pitch wind instruments), for their ability to imitate the human voice and to emphasize canonically harmonic intervals.
Musical forms
Instruments
How could instruments accomodate 15 notes per octave?
Idiophones
String instruments
Wind instruments
Tuning and scales
Modern performances of canonical Wiobian traditional music often default to 15 tone equal temperament; that is, every step of the 15-note scale is spaced exactly equally. However, historically the tuning had more nuances.