Sing the melody to the beginning of “Joy to the World.” How does the melody relate to the concept of scale in the Western music-culture?
What will be an ideal response?
"Joy to the world, the Lord has come!"
• The melody is sung to the tones/pitches of a descending major scale—
do ti la so fa mi re do—the preferred scale of the Western culture.
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