On Sep 28, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Christopher Stetson wrote: > My question (not answered in the book): In which traditional scale > does someone from, for example, Java have AP (or PP); slendro (5 > unequally "spaced" tones to the octave), pelog (seven equally > spaced > tones), or both? I wish someone would study this outside of the > Euro-American tonal system while there's still time.
Think of AP as pitch memory and the question answers itself. You remember the pitch you're exposed to. Someone in the rec. music.early group wrote about relearning his absolute pitch when he was exposed to pitches other than 440. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
