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Avian music tends to emphasize harmony, rhythm and timbre much more than melody, which most in-universe sapient passerines consider a part of language instead. Much of avian music is based on chord-scale theory. In songs, the melody is considered part of the lyrics and the melodies follow the chord-scale the music is currently in (most passerine languages | Avian music tends to emphasize harmony, rhythm and timbre much more than melody, which most in-universe sapient passerines consider a part of language instead. Much of avian music is based on chord-scale theory. In songs, the melody is considered part of the lyrics and the melodies follow the chord-scale the music is currently in (most passerine languages are tonal and some even require producing two notes at once). Both harmonic and inharmonic timbres may be used. | ||
* Most early recorded bird musical traditions are overtone singing and other timbral singing traditions demanding the various timbral nuances the avian syrinx is capable of. | * Most early recorded bird musical traditions are overtone singing and other timbral singing traditions demanding the various timbral nuances the avian syrinx is capable of. | ||
* Primodality: In | * Primodality: In-universe, primodality is invented by a bird uplift; birds use primodality to impart colors to chord-scales and sung dyad phonemes. | ||
* There is also a bird culture that uses soundscapes made by non-ji/inharmonic/pseudo-JI chords. | * There is also a bird culture that uses soundscapes made by non-ji/inharmonic/pseudo-JI chords. |
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