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Take one minute and try to sing a perfect 5th over a drone note. You'll waver around that beautiful sturdy 3:2. And if you're lucky, or if you practice you'll e
by whycombs 5y ago
Take one minute and try to sing a perfect 5th over a drone note. You'll waver around that beautiful sturdy 3:2. And if you're lucky, or if you practice you'll eventually lock in to that resonance/ratio and feel a universal truth as important as the right triangle.
All of music is based on resonance. And resonance is a ratio
- mrob 5y agoVoice is a harmonic timbre. If you could sing with inharmonic partials that perfect 5th would not sound so consonant. And this is relevant even in Western music. The piano is technically tuned percussion, and although it's very close to harmonic, it's inharmonic enough that you have to deviate from small integer ratios (beyond any deviation required for tempered scales) if you want the most consonant sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretched_tuning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretched_tuning
- jacquesm 5y agoSome people can do that all by themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC9Qh709gas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC9Qh709gas