Quick post today, just to record hypotheses I’d like to test. I’m back onto the “math of musical pitches” thing, but I’m promising myself I won’t get too lost down this rabbit hole. Not this time. Pianos and digital keyboard instruments are tuned to 12-Tone Equal Temperament (12ET), where each half-step is exactly the same interval …
This is part of my series on Understanding How Music Works. If you haven’t yet, you may wish to start at the beginning. I think it’s well past time we talked about time, y’know? As I first thought (months ago) about writing this post, I realized that music, of all the arts, has a special …
This is part of my series on Understanding How Music Works. If you haven’t yet, you may wish to start at the beginning. This post, finally, is about how two or more notes interact within a piece of music — when there is a “home base” note and some interval relationships between that note and the …
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This is part of my series on Understanding How Music Works. If you haven’t yet, you may wish to start at the beginning. In my last post I said that this post would be about how two or more notes interact within a piece of music – “what happens when there’s more than one note?” But …
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This is part of my series on Understanding How Music Works. If you haven’t yet, you may wish to start at the beginning. Here, I discuss a certain perceptual phenomenon that occurs, to the best of my knowledge, in all humans with normal hearing. This phenomenon has profound implications for how music works. But first, a definition… …
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