Why the 7-tone scale for modern music?

If we go by early Greek, Chinese and Japanese civilisations, many early musical scales were pentatonic (5 “main notes;” still a feature of Gamelan music in Bali). In the 5-tonic, the octave was divided by the simple means of counting the figures on one hand. Russian composer Borodin noticed it in folk song and used it in “Prince Igor” (it was represented in the modern production `Kismet’ by the song `Stranger in Paradise’.)

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