Re: European shatter belt's musical characteristics?

[al...@rev.net]

At 03:45 PM 3/26/09 -0700, The Green Troll wrote:
>
>David Reck, Music of the Whole Earth (1977), p24, shows a shatter
>belt
>running across Europe, roughly running around the borders of Finland,
>Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Thrace,
>Albania, Slovenia, Austria, Checkia, and Silesia.

Specifically, what characteristics make Russian folk music different from
its neighbors to the west?

Also, there is supposed to be a line across Poland. East of the line,
chromatic scales are heavily used in folk music. West of the line, folk
music is predominantly diatnoic. Where is the line across Poland?

--Spud DuBoise <http://www.rev.net/~aloe/couchpotato>