SCALES WITHIN WESTERN MUSIC

1. The Pentatonic Scale:

Wikipedia

Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
Chopin Etude Op 10 No 5 (the “black key” etude).

2. The Blues Scale:

Wikipedia

Blues Scale Patterns, Part 1.

In the style of B.B. King

B.B. King: Blues Boy Tune

3. The Whole Tone Scale:

Wikipedia

Classical Music: V.A. Rebikov’s Une Fête 1, 6, 7 (1907)

Jazz: Wayne Shorter’s Juju

Timbre difference on string instruments Pizzacato polka

SCALES AND TIMBRES WITHIN OTHER CULTURAL TRADITIONS

India: Rag Multani

Understanding the Baiscs of Indian Raga Music

Tabla Lesson 1 by Venkat

Tabla Lesson 2 by Venkat

Amazing young tabla player

Ravi & Anoushka Shankar – Raga Anandi Kalyan

Java: Sunda Javanese Gamelan

The Gamelan Music of Indonesia

South Africa: Miriam Makeba sings the Click Song

Australian didgerdoo

SONGS FROM OTHER SPECIES

Female Gibbon Singing

Whale Song

Mockingbird Songs

The elephant orchestra one and two and three and four.

LANGUAGE FROM OTHER SPECIES?

Vervet Monkey Leopard Call

Vervet Snake Call

Bee Waggle Dance (relatively soundless communication)

The Honey Bee Dance Language

WHISTLED SPEECH

A Mexican tone language

PRECURSERS TO HUMAN LANGUAGE: INTONATION AND GESTURE IN BABIES

Talking Twin Babies