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WE have been engaged on determining the frequency ratios involved in the principal musical scales or modes in current use in Egypt to-day. Those scales were the subject of a controversial discussion at an international congress held in Cairo in March 1932.1
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“Oriental Music Conference,” p.559 (Cairo, 1932).
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MOKHTAR, M., MOSHARRAFA, A. Modes in Modern Egyptian Music. Nature 140, 548–549 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140548b0
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