Re: Arabic scales

on 9/26/01 8:54 PM, tuning@yahoogroups.com at tuning@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:55 +0100 (BST)
> From: graham@microtonal.co.uk
> Subject: Re: Jazz in JI

>> "3/4-tone" of 150 as equivalent to 11:12 also implies this.
>
> The specifics are probably a scale like this from al-Farabi (d.950)
>
> ratio cents
>
> 1/1 0
> 9/8 204
> 27/22 355
> 4/3 498
> 3/2 702
> 18/11 853
> 19/9 996
> 2/1 1200

Thanks for posting this scale. I'm finding it quite interesting to improvise
in and am particularly fascinated with its quasi palindromic construction.
Since 9/11, when I've been in the mood for listening to music, which hasn't
been anywhere near as much as usual, I've been digging back into my
record/CD collection and listening to a lot of middle-eastern and Arabic
music. I've got Escalay (the water wheel), Hamza El Din, oud and voice on
the CD player now. Truly exquisite!

Seth

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