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TurkishMusic carries Turkey’s prayer: the call to prayer is sung in makams, and the ney flute sings for the whirling dervishes. Hicaz, ending on A as Turkish music sets it, sits within a hair of the twelve keys: A, B♭, C♯, D, E, F♯, G. In the Ottoman tradition of healing with music, Hicaz brings humility.
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PortugueseFado is Portugal’s own song, born in Lisbon’s streets and now on UNESCO’s list of humanity’s living heritage. Fado menor, the old minor fado, is played on the Portuguese guitar’s frets, so it lives on the twelve keys as it is: A, B, C, D, E, F, G♯, its raised seventh pulling home. Its soul is saudade: a longing for what is gone that holds love and loss at once.
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IndianIn India music is a path to God, and a raga is sung to colour the heart, each at its own hour. Yaman, the evening raga a student often learns first, keeps all of itself on the twelve keys: C, D, E, F♯, G, A, B. Its family is Kalyan, “the auspicious”, and it is sung as night falls.
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Japan made music a way of stillness: Zen monks played the shakuhachi flute as meditation, calling it blowing Zen. The In scale, the koto’s standard tuning and the sound of Sakura Sakura, falls on five white keys: E, F, A, B, C. Its spirit is ma, the silence between notes, heard as fully as the notes.
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