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pentatonic scale
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pentatonic scale

In music, a scale consisting of five notes. The most common pentatonic scale is made up of the notes that are equivalent to the black notes of the piano. Found as early as 2000 BC, the pentatonic scale is common in folk music from many countries. Some examples include the Scottish tune ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and the African American tune ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’.



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What will happen, for example, if one pitch in the simple anhemitonic pentatonic scale that I have just described is altered by a semitone?
The African matrix in jazz harmonic practices by Kubik, Gerhard / Black Music Research Journal
in the chords), that on the Guinea Coast the "stage" of anhemitonic pentatonism was passed through by cautiously incorporating two more steps into the scale, with the singers "not yet" certain about their pitch, and that that was the origin of "blue" notes (see Mecklenburg and Scheck 1963).
ANALOGIES AND DIFFERENCES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSICAL CULTURES ACROSS ... by KUBIK, GERHARD / Black Music Research Journal
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