NOTES OF THE SCALE AND THEIR NAMES
i* According to modern Western ideas the importance of each note of the scale varies very little, though their names, Tonic, Dominant, etc., remind ns that not maby years ago this was not so. s|io ancient Chinese had another way y‘f naming llieir notes as well as another way of reckoning their importance. -With them the order of importance came in order of succession, and what wo regard as the lowest note they regarded as the highest, and vice ve.fsa. They had a scale of five notes of which the lowest, in our reckoning, was called the Emperor, the second the Prime Minister; the third Loyal Subjects, the fourth Affairs of State, and the fifth Mirror of the World. This Pentatonic Seale, as it. is called, is found all over the world in primitive races, but probably nowhere else than in China are Hie 'notes given such high-sounding lilies.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 August 1928, Page 8
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