12 Jul
2012
12 Jul
'12
7:40 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Funs Seelen <funsseelen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to this list. This topic immediately got my attention because of
some surprising statements related to music theory that were posed.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
This work looks interesting to me...
I have a Casio Celviano with 7 temperaments. I find that most western
'classical' music (Bach and Beethoven) usually sound better in Werckmeister
or Kirnberger than Equal. And nonwestern music usually sounds much better
with Just (major or minor)
I am interested in carrying the experiments from the 7 fixed temperaments
of the Casio to the theorerically unlimited possibilities of a computer.
But Ive been stuck because:
- I dont know what software to use
- I am completely novice in music theory
Maybe I should try pure data??
I recently got into an argument (on the python list so more OT there than
here :-) ) about whether a B# is the same as C. If we allow that they may
not always be the same then we have a case where the
theory-of-musical-harmony (may be) breaking.
I don't understand what you mean with "theory-of-musical-harmony".
Not
intended to repeat an earlier discussion on another list, but C and B# are
definitely not the same. They happen to represent the same frequency in
equal temperament but that's all. On keyboards with 12 fixed pitches per
octave (like a piano) they will also be represented by the same key,
whether tempered equal, according to Werckmeister's theories or else.
However theoretically they are different notes. That's one big part of the
problem piano tuners have to deal with. Very recently I published an
external for Pure Data (http://student-kmt.hku.nl/~funs/software.html)