Western listeners complained to NBC that they wanted to hear the show.
In music, the double harmonic major scale is a scale whose gaps may evoke "exotic" music to Western listeners.
Timbre mediates Western listeners' recognition of angry and peaceful Hindustani songs.
The rise of "world beat," conceived as a marketing category rather than a catchall for imported delights, offers new choices to Western listeners.
Through recordings, and also projects like the annual Music From Japan festival, Western listeners have recently been getting a deeper picture.
"I think few Western listeners are aware of these things," he said.
Delage, in 1913, must have given many Western listeners a first notion of Indian music.
Many of the songs are built on modes and chord patterns that sound endlessly unresolved or polytonal to a Western listener.
The ears of even the most casual Western listeners are attuned to this grammar, whether they know it or not.
Soviet audiences did not come to the music with the same expectations as Western listeners.
