Music
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
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We find a huge variety of musical scales around the globe. The search for a common ground for the different scales has led us to the overtones as a constitutive factor. While the overtones certainly play a constitutive role in all scales, they do not represent a scale themselves. The series of the overtones
Information, music, Theory of the Three Worlds, Music scales
The fifth Let us first have a look at the fifth. It is a feature of practically all the musical scales of human cultures. Musical scales without this pure fifth do exist, but these musical scales strike me either as artificial and deliberately designed like the whole tone scales or rather uncommon like the Locrian
