Ambassel scale
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Pentatonic scale used in Gonder and Wollo Province in Ethiopia
For the region, see Ambassel.
The Ambassel scale (Amharic: አምባሳል ቅኝት) is a pentatonic scale widely used in the Gonder and Wollo regions of Ethiopia.
The notes of the scale (from C) are C, Db, F, G and Ab. It can be viewed as a pentatonic subset of the Phrygian scale on intervals 1, ♭2, 4, 5, ♭6 or as a mode of the Hirajoshi scale.
The scale is used in Ethiopian music for songs with historical themes. It can be heard used on the song "Ambassel" by Abate Berihun and Yitzhak Yedid on their Duo Ras Dashen album.
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[edit ]References
[edit ]- Ege, Svein; Aspen, Harald; Teferra, Birhanu; Bekele, Shiferaw (2009), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (PDF), Trondheim, archived from the original (PDF) on 2018年09月20日, retrieved 2016年05月03日
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