Posted on 09/27/2018 6:58:53 PM PDT by MountainWalker
I am a former classical pianist, mathematical Engineer and piano builder. Music structure is amazing. Music is just the “best approximation” for 1) the human ear, 2) the human hand, 3 ) human emotion, like happy & sad, and 4) human vocal cavities.
Take a pure sound, keep doubling its frequency will create octaves. Start with the first letter of the alphabet A.
A3 220 hz, A4 440hz, A5 880hz ...
Octave notes all sound “the same”, but just of different pitch.
Then divide those notes by integer fractions of pitch/frequency eg 3rd 5th.
Fractions sound harmonic and musical, but they are approximate.
After centuries of trial and error, 12 note divisions/fractions are ideal. That is Western music. Eastern music may have many more notes like 53 or 72.
Too many notes sounds “noisy” to us.
Also the human ear loves fractions, otherwise it sounds noisy.
Western 12 is just right IMHO.
7 of the 12 notes creates chords, hence human emotion.
Chords (scales) create human emotion like happy, sadness, incompleteness, irritation or confusion.
A woman's high note, like G or C, is arbitrary. Vocal cavities in women, can perform whistle register notes, like Mariah Carey. Personally, those are beyond true music quality, but nice if you have them. The point being, chest & head notes, based on human cavity dynamics, have a wide range, so a singer's highest note is arbitrary and quite variable.
Music is the “best approximation” matching mathematical fractional division to the human ear. Fractional sounds harmonically musical. Decimal non-fraction sounds noisy.
Mother nature loves doubling. Sound loudness has a wide range measured by db decibel. Sound pitch has a wide range measured by octave.
A piano with 88 keys is a good approximation of the range of human hearing in the ear, from lows to highs, about 7+ octaves A0 to C8.
The average human voice can sing 2 octaves if you practice hard.
Modern music has been modeled and built around the human, especially for our pleasure.
— (c) TheNext
That may have been what sealed it. That photo was embarrassing.
We worked to get Gardner. He paid us back by being John McCain. I won't vote for him again.
Music is strange in that it is a simple phenomenon composed of complex or abstract events.
Many pieces I like are arranged as though based on the rhythms of breathing. I think that’s what I’m hearing.
Breathing can become shallow, light and raspy when under tension.
Breathing can become full, sumptuous and loud when content.
I didn’t mean to hijack anyone’a thread,
but someone said ‘Music’, and one thing sort of lead to another. It’s always on my mind in some form.
The irony is that the Republicans can keep RBG’s seat open a long while.
No, we need every pro-Constitution justice on the Supreme Court we can have.
If the GOP holds the Congress, Trump should nominate Ted Cruz for RBG’s seat.
If President Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett, they will say she is a religious fanatic, who will force everyone to pray the Rosary three times a day.
Not just “some web site”, but Wikipedia (which may have liability here).
Not just someone posted it, but someone working on the House of Representatives network - which my guess will be traced to Shiela Jackson-Lee.
I guess the question here is how much tolerance does Congress have for insiders doxxing Senators?
That actually would not be a bad idea. No one who ever fled to the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary went unaided.
Do not fret my friend.
Their rage is our joy!!!
I love the sound of liberals sobbing in the morning!!!!!!!!!
While she didn’t come out and say it, the Mitchell questioner made it clear that Ford was abused by her own lawyers (and the Dems) and that indicated a further questioning about things would perhaps result in her report about what she came to believe after all the lies Ford told....the Repubs did Ford a kindness by not blaring or threatening that action and they all know it.
AGREE!! I'll believe it when the votes are counted and it's over.
I hope the Democrats all cannibalize themselves when this is over. Nothing like an epic failure to make them turn against each other.
Always, ALways, ALWAYS follow the money!
Trump should appoint a conservative woman next. Then the following male candidate can rightly ask: “Oh, so we’re back to high school yearbooks? That only applies to men, I see.”
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