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* Fixed pitch instruments were disfavored partly because of vegetarianism disallowing the use of animal glue. | * Fixed pitch instruments were disfavored partly because of vegetarianism disallowing the use of animal glue. | ||
===Origins=== | |||
The earliest recorded Talman musical tradition was based on throat-singing. Primes higher than 5 may have come from an early tradition of throat singing where having a deep voice and the ability to throat-sing higher harmonics (11-14) clearly was seen as a mark of masculinity. | |||
===Early Gweats court music=== | ===Early Gweats court music=== | ||
Composer Tsăhongtamdi's treatise [[Literature:Elements of Harmony|''Elements of Harmony'']] describes just intonation ratios, the process of playing them on strings, and Partchian tonality diamonds. Tsăhongtamdi's most influential recommendation was against using fixed-pitch instruments; he argued that they were expressively limited. This recommendation was lasting in influence - most instruments used in traditional Talman music are flexible-pitch instruments. Since Mărotłism banned the killing of mammals but not of fish, fish glue and hoof glue could be used for repairs instead of hide glue. Hence viola organistas and harpsichords were commonly used in imperial Windermere music. | Composer Tsăhongtamdi's treatise [[Literature:Elements of Harmony|''Elements of Harmony'']] describes just intonation ratios, the process of playing them on strings, and Partchian tonality diamonds. Tsăhongtamdi's most influential recommendation was against using fixed-pitch instruments; he argued that they were expressively limited. This recommendation was lasting in influence - most instruments used in traditional Talman music are flexible-pitch instruments. Since Mărotłism banned the killing of mammals but not of fish, fish glue and hoof glue could be used for repairs instead of hide glue. Hence viola organistas and harpsichords were commonly used in imperial Windermere music. | ||
===Monastic music=== | |||
Traditionally, monastic music used simple scales: | |||
*Overtone scales: overtones 5 to 10, 6 to 12, or 7 to 14. Sung over a drone. | |||
*Undertone scales: undertones 5 to 10, 6 to 12 or 7 to 14 | |||
*Hexanies: usually | |||
** 1 3 5 9: modes of 1/1 9/8 5/4 3/2 5/3 15/8 2/1 (C D E G A B C) | |||
** 1 3 7 9: modes of 1/1 9/8 7/6 21/16 3/2 7/4 2/1 (C D Eb F G Bb C) | |||
===''Săφnga cămχüüm''=== | ===''Săφnga cămχüüm''=== | ||