Re: Melodies move by step in any form of music?

"Jack Campin - bogus address" <bogus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> As far as the lower limitation is concerned, I would argue that there
is 
>> a
>> large body of music employing pentatonic scales - but not anything 
>> smaller.
>> So if you can show the 4 tone (especially o7) music, I would revise
that
>> opinion.
>
> Read some of the ethnomusicology literature.  The vast majority of
> human cultures have used scales with less notes, and virtually all
> children's songs from anywhere in the world still do so today.  (I
> have a few Scottish examples in my modes tutorial - their origins
> are all unexplained, but it seems a good bet that some are very old).
>
> Nor are most of these "oligotonic" scales subsets of any of the
> common pentatonic ones; historically they are usually neither
> degenerate nor ancestral forms.
>

Jack, I'm not familiar with the term "oligotonic" and can't find a 
consistent definition on the web.  Do you mean scales not repeating at the

octave?
Tom