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World Service,2 mins

Ethiopian Music And The Pentatonic Scale

BBC Music on the World Service with Cerys Matthews

Available for over a year

Cerys looks at how Mulatu Astatke fused the pentatonic – or five note - Ethiopian musical tradition, with the twelve note music of the West.

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