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Music has an inestimable emotional and social value. But music is also codified information. It is remarkable that all human tonal systems, despite all the differences between the various cultures of the world, have striking similarities. For example, the scales of all continents (major, minor and the thousand others) always span exactly one octave. Is there a physical reason for this? Today, the details of the different scales can also be explained in a new and surprising way on a physical basis, namely via the resonances of the intervals involved.

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  • music, Theory of the Three Worlds, Resonance, Music scales

    Have you ever wondered why the musical scales in all musical cultures, whether in the jungle, in the concert hall or in the football stadium, span precisely an octave? Or why children without any musical education the world over quite spontaneously find the major triad “beautiful”? The explanation lies in the resonances. No matter how

  • music, Music scales

    The series of overtones As we know, the octave is the first overtone. The physical phenomenon of resonance has helped us understand the role played by the overtones: in the physical world, vibrating media such as strings or pipes can vibrate with their basic frequency, but also with an integral multiple of this frequency. In

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