[Smt-talk] Double Harmonic Major and Minor

[Martin Braun]

Hi Marc, and others,

Indian music is not a subset of Arabian music, nor is it the other way 
round. So I am unable to infer what you might have wanted to say.

The shruti intervals in Indian music do not build scales. Rather, they are 
highly variable intervals than describe variations from the tones of the 
basic scale. The basic scale is a Sa-Ri-Ga system that closely corresponds 
to the western Do-Re-Mi system. This equivalence in scaling necessarily 
implies an equivalence of an auditory 12-step chroma space. Arabian music 
does not present a similar equivalence. Scales with augmented major seconds 
are likely to be more stable if musicians and listeners have an auditory 
12-step chroma space, like in Europe, India, China, and Japan.

Martin

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Martin Braun
Neuroscience of Music
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Sweden
http://www.neuroscience-of-music.se/index.htm


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc Trudeau" <magleouf at hotmail.com>
To: "Martin Braun" <nombraun at telia.com>; 
<smt-talk at lists.societymusictheory.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 8:58 AM
Subject: RE: [Smt-talk] Double Harmonic Major and Minor


Not sure I understand this argument, Martin. It's like saying: if x is
an element of the set A, and if A is a subset of B, then we are wrong in
 saying that x is an element of B... which clearly, is false logic.

However,
 if your argument is based on purely chronological facts, that one might
 argue that the classical Indian music system predated (? - I'm not
sure) the Arabic micro-tonal system...but in this case, your argument
should not be disguised in faulty logical statements.

PS: There are 22 shrutis in Indian classicla music...