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On 4/5/07, Fons Adriaensen  wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:57:32PM -0400, Charles Linart wrote:

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> > If notes are notes only because I've been "conditioned" for them, why

> > do the same notes show up in music all over the world?

>

> Simple fact is they don't.

Perfect fifths do.  Octaves do to, maybe to a lesser extent.  Both are

almost ubiquitous, and not all of the cultures using them learned them

from each other.  I think it's more accurate to say that non-notes are

non-notes because we haven't been exposed to them.
> > Whatever the explanation, the bushman and Mozart incorporate the

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> > same 12 fundamental harmonics in their music.

>

> No they don't. And there is nothing 'fundamental' to these 12 tones.

I agree.  If there are harmonics common to almost all music, it's more

like 3 or 4 of them than 12.
-Chuckk
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