It is an amazing phenomenon that the archaic features will admit a much wider range of possibilities in harmonizing and treating melodies or themes of the pentatonic kind, than would be the case with the common major or minor scale ... [Composers] surround these motifs with the results of their working, their imagination, and thus create, so to speak, an original and individual work pentatonic kind, than would be the case with the common major or minor scale melodies... [Composers] surround these motifs with the results of their working, their imagination, and thus create, so to speak, an original and individual work