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

>>> 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?
>> I got it from Kodaly's "Folk Music in Hungary" - I can't find
>> the place just now, but he didn't define it explicitly; he was
>> referring to tunes which use very few notes, much less than
>> full-octave pentatonic scales.
> I thought that you were referring to Scottish folk tunes.

I was.  I was using Kodaly's terminology to talk about them.

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