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Sethares and Tymoczko are the go-tos on this. But there's a lot more to creating interesting musical structures than creating chords out of mathematical struct
by TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
Sethares and Tymoczko are the go-tos on this.
But there's a lot more to creating interesting musical structures than creating chords out of mathematical structures that are based on the harmonic series.
The more time I spend trying to understand music, the less I understand it.
That's what makes it so endlessly fascinating.
- iainctduncan 5y agoI've read quite a bit on this, but not Sethares, do you have a recommendation for starting on his work? thanks!
- mreid 5y agoI'm not the parent, but I think they are referring to William Sethares' book "Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale": https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781852337971 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781852337971 It's a fascinating take on how those concepts relate to each other. You can find some of the papers that were synthesized into that book on his web page: https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/pubs.html https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/pubs.html