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[[Indonesian]] pelog scales sometimes use five-tone subsets of a seven-tone superset in a similar way, and it has been suggested that Indonesian gamelan music stems from a [http://www.neuroscience-of-music.se/pelog%20historical.htm 9edo tradition]. You can also use the 2/9, which generates mos scales of [[1L 3s]] (3 2 2 2) and [[4L 1s]] (2 2 2 2 1) and can be interpreted as either an extremely sharp [[bug]] scale or an extremely flat [[orwell]] one. | [[Indonesian]] pelog scales sometimes use five-tone subsets of a seven-tone superset in a similar way, and it has been suggested that Indonesian gamelan music stems from a [http://www.neuroscience-of-music.se/pelog%20historical.htm 9edo tradition]. You can also use the 2/9, which generates mos scales of [[1L 3s]] (3 2 2 2) and [[4L 1s]] (2 2 2 2 1) and can be interpreted as either an extremely sharp [[bug]] scale or an extremely flat [[orwell]] one. | ||
== Historical (and other) relevance == | |||
As a division of the octave into 3<sup>2</sup> parts, i. e. a dominant position of the number 3, also suggest 9edo's suitability as base tuning for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon Klingon] music (since the tradtional Klingon number system is also based on 3). See, for this: | |||
[http://%5B%5Bhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LjcBv-OWtQ%5D%5D Levi McClain, Klingon music theory is weird] | |||
== Diagrams == | == Diagrams == | ||