dudamello

75 years or 25 years from the creators death. Whichever comes first. This ensures the money from the work goes to the authors kids until they reach adulthood and that the author can live comfortably off their earnings (provided it makes money of course) without being absolutely ridiculous like Disney is influencing our copyright laws in the US to be.

Why is gamelan such a source of fascination to ethnomusicologists? I'm a music major, and when I took world music cultures it took up a good quarter of the semester, and all the ethnomusicologists I've met seem to be into it significantly more than almost any other culture.

Completely unrelated follow-up, the pentatonic scale in folk music world wide. Why is it so common among cultures which had very little to do with each other when their sense of music was being developed? Is it just the emphasis on consonance or is there something deeper to that?