People who remember being new to music: if we're explaining the major scale, how much, like, "this is why it is how it is" should we be going into? Should we:

- ...leave it as "yes, there's reasons for these arbitrary notes being the scale, don't worry about it right now"?
- ...talk about, like, primary triad construction?
- ...describe the pre-12-tone-equal-temperament tunings, Pythagorean tuning and meantone tuning and so on?
- ...compare 12-tone intervals to just intonated intervals?

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@packbat I think that depends on what context you're going into it in

if you're making an intro-to-music thing, start with option 1

if you're going for a music 201 class, go for option 3 or 4
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