Free stuff, Lessons & Links -Traditional Japanese Pentatonic Scales & quartal harmony

Traditional pentatonic scales can be understood and heard in light of modern quartal harmony. The three examples are of traditional Japanese pentatonic scales but this approach works with any pentatonic scale that is in the 12356 inversion.

Below are the "Pelog, Hirajoshi and Kumoi" pentatonic scales. I have included a "?" simply because I do not know the correct "traditional" inversion of the scales. With that said, you can understand and hear the tones as a series of 4ths making them relevant to a more modern "western" conception of harmony. The scales in their new inversions have a more open "quartal" sound as well as a different root feeling.