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soggybottomboysvevo · 3 months ago

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learning about microtones and how western instruments arent built to play them and therefore our music theory doesnt accommodate them when theyre incredibly common and crucial to understanding non-western music literally rewired by brain

#the important subtext of which is that when westerners encountered these other modalities they heard them as discordant and labeled them as #not only incorrect but - in some instances - '''heathen''' and sinful #(western music theory was very enmeshed with the 15th century church and - in true renaissance fashion - borrowed writings from the Greeks #about mathematical proportion and harmony in sound and aligned it with the concept of the heavenly spheres etc etc)#all of this say in western nations we still dont get to hear a lot of these modalities and i think we're worse off for it :/#you can teach your brain to see the internal logic and intentionality in these songs and enjoy them!!!! i love music!!!!!!

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