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in music •  7 years ago 

So in my last post I wrote about the Shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute that only have five holes. It is tuned in what is called Pentatonic minor which sounds very outlandish and complicated but really are quite known to us all.

Many types of Western folk music uses this simple scale, most famously maybe blues. Below are two musical pieces that both (almost) are made with the notes from the pentatonic scale (both have one note that differs.)


Summertime by George Gerswin - performed by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald


The Danish psalm Se Nu Stiger Solen by Olaf Ring - performed by the national TV chamberchoir

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