virus: music notes

Nathaniel Hall (natehall@WORLDNET.ATT.NET)
Wed, 05 Aug 1998 18:00:24 -0600


sodom wrote:
I would guess that there are
> not many "musical memes" that have lasted more than a few hundred years, and
> probably none that have outlived more than a thousand without transcription.

>
> Perhaps the meme is not so much individaul notes, but scale concepts. The
> scale the west uses (do-ra-me-fa-so-la-ti-do) or (1-1-.5-1-1-1.5) has been
> the main mode of music writing for hundreds of years.

> Sodom
>
> Bill Roh
An interesting note here. A flute found in an egyptian tomb had it
sound recreated with computer simulation, (to make up for the damage
done to it over the years). The amazing thing about it was that it used
the 5 point scale we still have today!
Nate Hall