Reply to Bill Alves in TD 900

>I look forward to your paper. Personally, I think Yasser had a lot of great
>ideas with a lot of ethno-centrist, Darwinist and ultimately unnecessary
>ethno-historical nonsense to try to justify them.

Not to mention numerological nonsense. I just think there is something valid
to the connection between the pentatonic scale and 3-limit harmony and
tonality, thought not necessarily what Yasser says there is.


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