And there’s this tune from Minoa… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz3d5x-MUT4
Snails on the walls would help
The beat’s okay, but it’s hard to dance to. I give it a 53.
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UPDATE:
Recently discovered fragments of clay tablet seem to contain some of the lyrics. Translated so far:
…name is Ozymandias,
You’re nothing but a candy-ass.
My chariot is dope, clown,
Your chariot is broke down.
I get the cheers, you…[indecipherable]… heckles,
[untranslatable]* want to (know?) me, 'cause I got the shekels.
*unknown term, possibly referring to young ladies of the court.
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OMG, I’d totally forgotten that they did that on American Bandstand!
I’m curious to know how they even knew what scale they used, let alone the score.
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Probably a pentatonic one, maybe hexatonic, derived from consecutive fifths as it’s the interval both easiest on the ear and easiest to engineer after the octave.
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Nor even entirely sure how Bach tuned his ‘Wohltemperierte Klavier’ to make it well tempered in the first place …
But I’m a sucker for Just Intonation (those 5ths 
), so I like it anyway.
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There’s a fun story about that.
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Our son plays piano nicely and I’m reasonably adept at messing with midi kit. So one afternoon we tried a bunch of temperaments on the Baroque pieces he was studying. Bradley Lehman’s Bach temperament does actually sound good. 
But although it sounds good and his interpretation of the Bach squiggle is feasible, we still don’t really know … 
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