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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Stephen Stubbs wrote:
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> {Stephen}: The Ancient Greeks did not have major keys nor minor keys.

> The 'modes' used by the Medieval European monks were not the same as the

> original modes of the Ancient Greeks.  A great deal was lost in the

> translation, or perhaps it was due to fragmentary sources.

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http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/

specifically: http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/scalesdir.txt
You will find that there are over 4000 diferent scales there.
the notion that there are only a handful of scales can be a moderately

accurate as a description of typical musical practice at a given point in

time in a given culture.
but on the other hand it also is a wildly inaccurate and simplistic idea

that robs humanity of a good part of its cultural heritage.
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