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  • a  relating to a pentatonic scale

  • Typical of Albarn's various cultural adventures, he doesn't attempt to pass as a local; the details and pentatonic scale may come from Chinese folk music, but the playful melodies .
  • He will no doubt be thinking of the silken flutter of the 13-stringed koto or the modal mysteries of the pentatonic scale.
  • Perhaps he did not catch on at once, but his horn was tuned naturally to a pentatonic (five-note) scale.
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  • Myung-Whun Chung in EastDay.com
    Chung says the orchestra will also be performing Chinese composer Ge Ganru's "Six Pentatonic Tunes for Orchestra."
  • Bela Fleck in Newsweek
    A lot of Chinese music is very pentatonic, which bluegrass music is,says Fleck, referring to the scale preferred by many roots musicians. "But they think American traditional music is 'Country Road'."
  • Corey Harris in Christian Science Monitor
    The use of the pentatonic scale isshared, as well as the use of the flat 7th note, or the blue note,says Harris.

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