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=== Indian ===

Carnatic music, which is normally based on a 22-note unequal scale, has found some use from [[22edo]] as a good approximation, but 41 offers another option with [[Magic22 as srutis|Magic[22]]], which not only represents 22edo closely, but preserves accurate perfects fifths and the unequal quality of a more typical carnatic scale.

=== Japanese ===

Japanese classical music known as Gagaku is largely built around winds, strings, and percussion, and the melodies, like many Asian cultures, are built around Pythagorean pentatonic scales, alongside chromaticism with narrow semitones, which are well represented by Pythagorean limmas.

=== Blues ===

Due to its pure major thirds and approximations of standard western harmony, 41 naturally is good for jazz and blues music, though a great strength of this system as opposed to many others is its excellent harmonic seventh, alongside MOS scales that supply them, [[Miracle]] in particular.

Coltrane changes can be represented with two Pythagorean major thirds and a pental one, or an MOS like Magic, whose circles of major thirds give options for rotating major and minor triads within one scale.

Blue notes, rather than being considered inflections, can be notated as accidentals instead, such as the "blue third" which is represented by a neutral third, or any number of septimal intervals that sound great in a blues context.

=== Other ===

Georgian Polyphonic singing can be done in a 41edo context due to its excellent approximations of prime harmonics and neutral third, as well as Pythagorean seconds and sevenths. Asian musical traditions built around pentatonic scales can use both Pythagorean and [[Barbad|Barbad[5]]].

== Music ==

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 === Indian ===
 Carnatic music, which is normally based on a 22-note unequal scale, has found some use from [[22edo]] as a good approximation, but 41 offers another option with [[Magic22 as srutis|Magic[22]]], which not only represents 22edo closely, but preserves accurate perfects fifths and the unequal quality of a more typical carnatic scale.
+=== Japanese ===
+Japanese classical music known as Gagaku is largely built around winds, strings, and percussion, and the melodies, like many Asian cultures, are built around Pythagorean pentatonic scales, alongside chromaticism with narrow semitones, which are well represented by Pythagorean limmas.
+=== Blues ===
+Due to its pure major thirds and approximations of standard western harmony, 41 naturally is good for jazz and blues music, though a great strength of this system as opposed to many others is its excellent harmonic seventh, alongside MOS scales that supply them, [[Miracle]] in particular.
+Coltrane changes can be represented with two Pythagorean major thirds and a pental one, or an MOS like Magic, whose circles of major thirds give options for rotating major and minor triads within one scale.
+Blue notes, rather than being considered inflections, can be notated as accidentals instead, such as the "blue third" which is represented by a neutral third, or any number of septimal intervals that sound great in a blues context.
+=== Other ===
+Georgian Polyphonic singing can be done in a 41edo context due to its excellent approximations of prime harmonics and neutral third, as well as Pythagorean seconds and sevenths. Asian musical traditions built around pentatonic scales can use both Pythagorean and [[Barbad|Barbad[5]]].
 == Music ==