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* a shruti box that plays 5-note drones for guiding singing | * a shruti box that plays 5-note drones for guiding singing | ||
* "talking" pitched instruments: drums, flutes, trombones and fretless bowed strings | * "talking" pitched instruments: drums, flutes, trombones and fretless bowed strings | ||
* monochord/bass drone to reinforce the tonic of a scale | * a monochord/bass drone to reinforce the tonic of a scale (because the melody might not tonicize it) | ||
== 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. | ||