To find out, Bowling and his colleagues first measured the distribution of tones in around 7500 western classical melodies and Finnish folk tunes in both major and minor keys.

为了证明这一点，丹尼尔●保林和他的同事们首先测量了大约有7500首西方经典歌曲和芬兰民歌声调的分布情况，它们中有的属于大音阶，有的属于小音阶。