Musicologists therefore hypothesize that the diatonic musical scale was developed and used thousands of years before it was adopted by Western musicians.
音乐学家因此推测，在被西方音乐家采用之前，全音阶已经发展和使用了数千年。
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There are musicologists who assert that the three great innovators in our musical history were Monteverdi, Bach, and Stravinsky, though the assertion is disputable.
有些音乐学者宣称，蒙台威尔第、巴赫和斯特拉文斯基是音乐史上三位伟大的创新者，虽然这种说法存在争议。
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The piano was perfected in the early eighteenth century by a harpsichord maker in Italy (though musicologists point out several previous instances of the instrument).