Pentatonic

There is no doubt that the pentatonic is the musical scale of all Malaysia, and probably of all China; and none also that the diatonic, almost universal in Europe, is the musical scale of portions of India. ❋ Various (N/A)

Goethe has there suggested; and we shall find it can be arranged in what I may call a pentatonic scale of culture. ❋ Various (N/A)

* 2: That means the pentatonic is the (I, III, IV, V, VII) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Williams says that Simon created the five notes of steel drum music, known as the pentatonic scale. ❋ Unknown (2009)

* 2: That means the pentatonic is the (I, II, III, V, VI) ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Sudanese music is based on the so called pentatonic scale: scale with 5 notes to the octave, like the black notes in the piano (in contrast to an heptatonic,7 notes, scale like the gypsy or Egyptian scale. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Countless pop songs give us permutations of the same stock phrases, diatonic or pentatonic, but kept together not by any intrinsic power of adhesion but only by a plodding rhythmical backing and banal sequence of chords. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The opposite perspective is savant syndrome. so their talent comes at the expense of say, being able to tie your own shoelaces or not drooling or some other disability. or the ‘god-is-fair’ theory; where everyone gets X number of skill points to level up and they spent it all on the pentatonic scale. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These peculiar transitions were made possible by the recurrence of the pentatonic on different traditions; they were also enabled by 20 years of, in a sense, aural slumber, and of now beginning to recover, in a new but accidental way, what I'd long ago heard and cast aside. ❋ Amit Chaudhuri (2010)

Marilyn sez, "Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale and an audience's expectations to demonstrate neural programming at the World Science Festival 2009" ❋ Unknown (2009)

She hit her high point early on with a powerful reading of "Siboney" that used minor and pentatonic modes to reference Middle-Eastern music and even traveled momentarily through a reggae beat. ❋ Will Friedwald (2010)

This was because both the blues and certain Indian ragas are pentatonic: they have five notes. ❋ Amit Chaudhuri (2010)

In his experience, orchestral works by composers of Chinese or Japanese origin just featured a lot of "the stereotypical sounds of that region," such as a pentatonic melody with a parallel harmony in fifths classical European music favors parallelisms in thirds or sixths or the insertion of gongs or bamboo flutes. ❋ Lee Lawrence (2011)

The combination of African rhythms and the pentatonic scale and European instrumentation and arrangement. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 1976, Stephen Sondheim used the pentatonic scale to create his score for Pacific Overtures. ❋ George Heymont (2011)

Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with the pentatonic scale ❋ Unknown (2009)

[One by metallica] is a good song, but [the solo] is just [pentatonic wanking] and fucking tapping ❋ Knibnobber (2015)

I was [taking a shit], and [remembered] david, really [the Law] of Pentatonics is true. ❋ Gagglefucker109 (2021)

[pentatonix] is a musical group, they use [a cappella group] that got there name from the pentatonic scale in result they have five members a bass, a beat boxer who is a tenor, [mezzo-soprano], a baritone, and a counter tenor. ❋ Pepentatperson2345 (2017)