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| ==Cuisine== | | ==Cuisine== |
| Idosian cuisine uses a variety of seafoods. | | Idosian cuisine uses a variety of seafoods. |
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| ==Music==
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| Idosian music partially traces its origins from folk Idosian music which involves singing in the pentatonic and diatonic scales.
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| ===Instruments===
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| One common style of Idosian music is polyphonic vocal music. Also common are fixed pitch instruments such as harpsichords, pianos, organs and marimbas.
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| ===Tuning===
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| The dominant tuning system used in Idosian music is [[w:19 equal temperament|19-tone equal temperament]], which is a meantone tuning like our 12-tone equal temperament (i.e. four perfect fifths are equated to an approximate 5/4 major third).
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| Periods in Idosian music:
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| *Long Renaissance~Baroque period
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| *19-TET was easy to tune while allowing specifically 19-TET stuff: pseudo-slendro and 9-note scales generated by half-fourths, bluesy stuff, allowing fine chromatic steps
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| ===Rhythms===
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| Rhythm in Idosian music can become very complex.
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| ===Works===
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