"A Speculative History of the Music of Arda", Steven Linden

[Nogrod]

I haven't read the article yet (needs to do that) but one question comes to mind - well many questions, but let's start with one...

Had Linden any opinion or argument about music in the ME in comparison to different musical cultures of the real world or is it just based on western musical tradition? So is it just the reversal of western musical history brought by applying the myth of the fall from paradise?

Paraphrasing the worn-out maxim: the Westerners are the geniuses of harmony, the Middle-easterners are masters of melody and the Indians the gurus of rhythm... and the histories of the music of these cultures vary and take different paths - not to talk of the variety of musical cultures in Africa, far-east...