This might be off-topic ...but by comparison of this unusual and potentially intense feel created by "westernized" arrangements of African music, here a song from a typical modern Manding music by sekouba bambino diabetesKrakatau wrote: Wed Jun 07, 2023 10:11 am Here an arrangement made for a singer from Burkina Faso, (we were two arranger in the case and I went at least)... in where traditional pentatonic scale being corrected to match a diatonic one
...I don't if you're like me, but it gave a very mysterious, nostalgic and innovative feel to the melody in where here fundamental and dominant are NEVER supported, (especially and beggining and end of phrases) ...very unusual
the effect is of course used mainly on the leading voice (especially in the middle of the song in where the subdominant is sustained by the singer) and the mix might be a bit rough on that respect, but it has frankly an intense emotional suggestion to my western sensitivity ...the effect having the tendency to enhance overall harmony it is easy to use it excessively
notice that it is among the African scale very likely the most obvious for diatonic arrangements, Manding scale being heptatonic, that is exceptional in African traditional scales
notice how the ninth supports constantly the 3rd steps of a B dorian scale as a background tuned beat...and how melodies are very rarely concluding with the fundamental tone of the scale