On 4/5/07, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:57:32PM -0400, Charles Linart wrote: > If notes are notes only because I've been "conditioned" for them, why > do the same notes show up in music all over the world? Simple fact is they don't.
Perfect fifths do. Octaves do to, maybe to a lesser extent. Both are almost ubiquitous, and not all of the cultures using them learned them from each other. I think it's more accurate to say that non-notes are non-notes because we haven't been exposed to them.
> Whatever the explanation, the bushman and Mozart incorporate the > same 12 fundamental harmonics in their music. No they don't. And there is nothing 'fundamental' to these 12 tones.
I agree. If there are harmonics common to almost all music, it's more like 3 or 4 of them than 12. -Chuckk -- http://www.badmuthahubbard.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
