Timeline for Why are there twelve notes in an octave?
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| Oct 10, 2019 at 7:56 | comment | added | srinivas | Distinct means where a change from one note to another is clearly identified. The more the divisions in a scale, the less distinct the notes become. Dissonant intervals maybe are easily identified as they are jarring, but in terms of how brain like harmony, the 7 intervals are musical and naturally melodic. Try singing a dissonant tune, and a melodic tune and you will know which one feels easier. pentatonic is a subset and has more distinct intervals that all the 7 notes of the scale. If you decided to add more stops in a scale like 20 for example, it will naturally become one long yawn | |
| Dec 8, 2013 at 4:53 | comment | added | user28 | This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. What do you mean by "distinct"? I would think that consonant intervals are less distinct that dissonant ones, for example, and the twelve tone scale is designed around consonant intervals. Sharps and flats aren't something you can disclude when counting intervals either, unless you're working within a particular key or harmonic theory or seomthing (and you haven't specified one). Finally, how can 7 intervals produce "the most distinct sound" if 4 (or rather 5) intervals are "the easiest to identify"? | |
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| Oct 23, 2013 at 1:11 | history | edited | srinivas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 23, 2013 at 1:03 | history | answered | srinivas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |