Le topic des gammes arabes ou orientales

pour les 1/4 et 3/4 de ton, Fretless !!

Criticism against 24-EDO
Although accepted as a framework for intervallic structure of Persian music , Vaziri's model is severly criticized by Players , composers and scholars who belive in intervallic flexibility, composer and musicologist. He writes, "In the course of the twentieth century, three separate theories on intervals and scales of Persian music have been proposed. The first of these, put forward in the 1920s by Vaziri, identifies a 24-quarter-tone scale as the basis for Persian music... Vaziri's quarter-tone theory, which is arrived at by way of a further division of the western equidistant 12-note chromatic scale, is entirely irrelevant to Persian music. It is an artificial creation devised to make possible the adoption of a kind of harmonic practice, based on western tonal harmony. It would be difficult to accept Vaziri was not aware of the fact that Persian music makes no use of the quarter-tone and that intervals other than the semi-tone and the whole-tone are not achieved through multiples of the quartertone. He must simply have believed in the desirability of their being adjusted to correspond to an equidistant quarter-tone scale so that a kind of harmony may be imposed upon the music. Clearly, he did not propose to do this in order to destroy the music, but, as he saw it, to advance its possibilities into the realm of polyphony. He and many other Middle Eastern musicians of the early twentieth century regarded a monophonic musical tradition as intrinsically inferior. Their aim was to make the necessary adjustments so that polyphonic writing could be admitted into their music, and understandably they took western music as their model.

Il y avait une super vidéo sur Tontube où il jouait une guitare électrique frettée en 1/4 de tons,mais elle a disparu...En tout cas c'était très intéressant.

Edit je l'ai retrouvée:

http://www.archive.org/details(...)zFuze