mhauru

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by mhauru 5y ago
Not sure I see what you mean. Here's the infamous I – V – VI – III – IV – I – IV – V progression from Canon in D in just intonation, with square brackets marking tones that make up a chord (invert the chords to your taste): [1/1 5
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by mhauru 5y ago
At any one time, yes, there's always a root tone and the tuning system is generated with respect to that root. Such is the nature of pure harmony. This is one of the reasons (I would say the main reason) why equal temperament tuning ra
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by mhauru 5y ago
Weellll, yes and no. Yes, modern music is (mostly) in tune with respect to the chosen tuning system. However, there really is a sense in which just intonation is the harmonically most pure tuning system. The reason musical harmony is a thin
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by mhauru 5y ago
Sorry, I could have been clearer in explaining how to actually use the thing. So the keyboard at the bottom is in the regular 12-EDO tuning that we are all used to and cubase does as well. It's the red dots that are the just intonation
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by mhauru 5y ago
Ah, I see. Indeed, I did not mean to imply that the average listener is aware of the short-comings of equal temperament without somebody explicitly providing the contrasting example of just intonation. I merely meant to say that the differe
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by mhauru 5y ago
geofft gives an excellent answer to this, but I'll try to complement it a bit. There are reasons grounded in the physics of soundwaves for why frequencies related by simple ratios sound "special" when played together. As geof
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by mhauru 5y ago
As far as I know, no one has so far made a piece using the Jintone instrument (it's admittedly quite clunky for actually playing rather than toying around), but there's plenty of music in the just intonation tuning system. To comp
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by mhauru 5y ago
Agreed. Although as you point out, the singers being unaccompanied is important. Mixing keyed (or fretted, valved etc.) instruments into the ensemble quickly starts to push everyone towards 12-EDO. I also wonder how much continuous pitch in
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by mhauru 5y ago
Musical harmony is all about sound frequencies related to each other by simple ratios, like 3/2 and 5/4. For the past few hundred years Western music has been using a tuning system in which these simple fractions are approximated