All musical cultures, Western and non-Western, make use the octave. Do they all use it in the same manner or are
there differences? Explain.
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Pitches within the octave are divided differently: many Chinese use a pentatonic melody; some Arabic
traditions have fourteen subdivisions; historically Western music has preferred the division into seven pitches,
with the eighth the octave
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