There is a cliché in popular music used to evoke the Far East flavor—Chinese, Japanese, Nipponese, you-name-it-ese. It goes like: “di di di di di, di, di, di, diii.” Click the score below to listen (or stop). Warning: Recorders! The Oriental Melody dates as far back as the mid-1800s. Quartal parallel harmonies in a pentatonic […]
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The People’s Jam of China
Here’s a China-style jam using a Chinese keyboard. The scale is C Major Pentatonic, the most popular key in China. Below you can hear both the 7-note and the 5-note major scales. The major scale is known as the happy scale, because it has less natural dissonances than the sad minor scale. The Major Pentatonic […]
