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Re: one Chinese Tang Dynasty tuning >

🔗czhang23@aol.com

2/8/2004 11:07:00 PM

> From: "wallyesterpaulrus" <paul@stretch-music.com>
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>--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, czhang23@a... wrote:
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>> Chinese Traditional Music - Pitches, Scales andâ |
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>> http://www.cechinatrans.demon.co.uk/ctm-psm.html
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>Nice page, thanks for reporting it.

:) Welcome. Now if I can find more Tang Dynasty scale-tunings... there
were quite a number according to a lot of resources I have read.
Some Tang era modes show up - heavily mutated - in Japanese Gagaku modes
(esp'ly in Chinese influenced togaku and Central Asian influenced etenraku).

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