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This is effectively just stealing the name from that culture to give the illusion of time-honoured legitimacy to your new concept. This is like when people claim to be practicing Native American herbal medicine when they're doing nothing of the sort. | This is effectively just stealing the name from that culture to give the illusion of time-honoured legitimacy to your new concept. This is like when people claim to be practicing Native American herbal medicine when they're doing nothing of the sort. | ||
Not only is it stealing the respect afforded to the storied tradition you're claiming relationship to, it is also eroding the respect that people then pay to that culture's music theory. The more people who make unrelated bootleg copies of [[slendro]] scale or [[maqam]] | Not only is it stealing the respect afforded to the storied tradition you're claiming relationship to, it is also eroding the respect that people then pay to that culture's music theory. The more people who make unrelated bootleg copies of [[slendro]] scale or [[maqam]] biyati, the less seriously the public and scholars will take the actual, real slendro scale and maqam biyati, which is extremely unfair. | ||
=== DON'T make it sound like your concept is an exact replica of the original concept === | === DON'T make it sound like your concept is an exact replica of the original concept === | ||
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==== Biyatismic ==== | ==== Biyatismic ==== | ||
[[Biyatismic]] temperament is inspired by maqam | [[Biyatismic]] temperament is inspired by maqam biyati, so it is good that it references that in the name. What's not good is that the name makes it sound like it is the exact same thing as maqam biyati. The name makes it sound like the temperament generates the original, traditional maqam biyati. Which is not the case. | ||
Biyatismic temperament would score 5 stars instead of 1 if it were named something like: | Biyatismic temperament would score 5 stars instead of 1 if it were named something like: | ||