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Small-integer ratios predominate throughout the world's musical scales

2019-06-15

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<p>The structure of musical scales has been proposed to reflect universal bioacoustic principles based on simple integer ratios. However, some researchers who have studied tuning in small samples of non-Western cultures have argued that such ratios are instead specific to Western music. To address this debate, we algorithmically analyzed and cross-culturally compared scale tunings within a global sample of 124 mus...

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Literature Corpus work: 77697844-3535-5fd0-a673-440c5ab00727
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/5bghm

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