José Manuel Pérez Cortijo "A note about musical diversity"

ABSTRACT
Our musical notes represent a very specific and concrete selection of all the available spectrum of musical sounds, which is, by definition, infinite. Thus, starting from the A-440, all other sounds have been established and therefore, musical creativity is determined by our music, being the former a result of a harmonic, although limited, conjunction of sounds. These are being recorded within a series of rhythmic cells which have also been previously established, are limited in number and have been selected out of a much larger group of rhythmic possibilities. However, other cultures have chosen other ways of making music: the Hindu intervalic music, the Chinese microtonal music, the African polyrhythmic music, the Peruvian Andean music. The experiments of the dodecaphonic music are also worth remembering.

KEYWORDS: Scale, rhytmic cell, intervals, microtonal, polyrhytmia, pentatonic, dodecaphonism 



ABSTRACT
Our musical notes represent a very specific and concrete selection of all the available spectrum of musical sounds, which is, by definition, infinite. Thus, starting from the A-440, all other sounds have been established and therefore, musical creativity is determined by our music, being the former a result of a harmonic, although limited, conjunction of sounds. These are being recorded within a series of rhythmic cells which have also been previously established, are limited in number and have been selected out of a much larger group of rhythmic possibilities. However, other cultures have chosen other ways of making music: the Hindu intervalic music, the Chinese microtonal music, the African polyrhythmic music, the Peruvian Andean music. The experiments of the dodecaphonic music are also worth remembering.

KEYWORDS: Scale, rhytmic cell, intervals, microtonal, polyrhytmia, pentatonic, dodecaphonism