Embed Notice

@kotaro No, I don’t dislike it either. It’s okay for what it is: a way of explaining a specific tradition, and how it works.

But the Western grid leaves out a whole lot of things too: microtonality, pitch inflection, rhythmic complexity.

Also, it ironically fails to account for traditional Western music itself. A massive chunk of traditional Anglo-American and Celtic folk music doesn’t even use all seven notes of the standard Western scale.

Western music theory is a text-based science. Meanwhile, so much European folk music is an oral tradition.