Posts Tagged ‘octave’

October 25th, 2006
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Define: Microtones

Division of the octave into intervals smaller than the half-tone, the smallest interval used within the tempered scale. Examples include Fokker’s thirty-one-note organ, Partch’s forty-three-note percussion instruments, etc. Microtonal music, compositions based on microtones.

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April 28th, 2006
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The Golden Mean in Harmony Part 2: Tritones: The Devil’s interval

Tritones: The Devil’s musical interval:
If you look at the relative stability of each scale degree in Western harmony you’ll see that the 4th and 7th are the most instable. In order of stability to instability it looks like this:
1, 5, 3, 6, 2, 4, 7
So 4 and 7 provide the most tension as 4 wants [...]



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