Editorial Reviews Unfortunately, since musical cultures from a variety of worlds are unavailable for study at the present time, the practice of exomusicology remains speculative. The main tool of *speculative exomusicology* is the "thought experiment" which involves the music and culture of fictitious creatures and nonexistent alien species. The primary goal is that by thinking about what music might sound like and how musical instruments might be used in the context of various alien cultures, we might see more clearly what music means to ourselves. Each musical culture throughout known space has its own set of instruments, its own musical scales, and its own aesthetic considerations. This collection presents a variety of music in a large number of unusual tunings, including various equal temperaments, just intonations, and adaptive tunings.
Exomusicology
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Album Description
"Ethnomusicology" is used to describe the study of nonwestern musical traditions and to the comparative study of different musical cultures. The more general term "exomusicology" (from the greek prefix *exo*, meaning 'external to' or 'outside of') is more appropriate to the study of nonhuman musical traditions, much as exobiology refers to the study of non-Earth life forms, and exolinguistics to the study of alien languages.