AUCA 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pentatonic Scale, Major Chord, Absolute Music
18 Oct 2016
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Humans most likely first communicated with sounds of emotional like an infant. Innate grammatical competence-nature gives us ability to encode language. There is a search for one universal mother language (similarities even between latin and slavonic languages) Our physiology enables humans to make alike and synchronizing sounds. In all language the syllable ma" is related to mother, all humans have the physical ability to create any syllable in any language. Pentatonic scale is found in almost every culture. The first three notes of the overtone series create a major triad. Children"s songs around the world use the same three notes (g, e, a) because they are the first new notes in the order of the overtone series. Can argue this interval is not heard early in the overtone series, which discredits. Humans have universal need to create order out of chaos. When we have trouble understanding a piece of foreign music (ex.
