Re: [LAU] Re: That must suck. For me it's about beauty--musicisjustone path

From: Fons Adriaensen <fons@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Apr 05 2007 - 19:50:44 EEST

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:34:23PM -0400, Charles Linart wrote:

> There are 12 frequencies of sound that are recognized by the human ear
> as musical notes.

That's completely wrong. Your recognise notes because you have been
conditioned for them. It could be any set of frequencies.
 
> The limited use of other frequencies can produce rhythms to bind the
> notes into musical compositions. Technology gives us the ability to
> turn everything into a drum, but you still need those 12 frequencies
> to produce melody.

Again wrong. The existence of melody does not depend on the Western
12-note scale.

-- 
FA
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