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Chapter 9 of 10
Music around the world
Other systems.
Beyond twelve tones
Indian classical music uses ragas and microtonal inflections, Arabic maqam includes quarter tones, and Indonesian gamelan uses tunings that do not match a piano at all.
- Rhythmic cycles such as tala can run to many beats.
- Western notation cannot capture much of this accurately.
Popular forms
Blues, jazz, rock, hip hop, electronic and their many descendants each grew from specific communities and technologies, and borrowed from one another constantly.