[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And one of the pleasures of siscovering Indian music was finding a cogent system where that seventh DIDN'T have to go up and the fourth DIDN'T have to go down. Another way to "break the tyranny of the major and minor modes"!
Which is interesting because when I hear a lot of such Indian music with those intervals not going the way I'm used to hearing them, I get uncomfortable.
nature or nurture? Who's to say what the cause is, but that's the effect it has on me.
I love Indian music, but it does make me feel uncomfortable and when I heard Ravi Shankar and his two fellow musicians (Ali Akbar Khan and Alla Rakah) in concert at my college, I enjoyed it very much but I found that I couldn't wait for each half of the concert to end. But I did go back after intermission for more because just as it made me uncomfortable, it also mesmerized me.
So even though the music may not feel the tyranny of the major and minor modes, I do even though I try not to.
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