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The Hindi scale, just extraordinary.

It's beautiful, isn't it? I love that the ornamentation is part of the scale.

Isn’t it? It made me realise that in earlier 20th century films, whenever the action moved to an Arab state, the Hollywood musicians may not have been playing a tune - they only had to play the Arabic scale.

Yeah, switching to a different scale or mode has always been a short cut for film composers wishing to signify certain things. Scene set in South East Asia somewhere? Pentatonic scale, job done. Medieval England? Dorian mode mate.