One of my personal hobbies is searching out the instructors on any subject who stand out head and shoulders above the average. You, sir, are an excellent instructor. This is one of the most cogent and rare insights into music theory that I’ve ever seen presented. Well done.
The part where you show the intervals yielding the same exact shapes in all keys is absolutely mind-blowing. You just have to learn one pattern and then you know them all.
Amazing work! I have been looking for ways to link music and something visual, you did it amazingly! With the colors, shapes and notes! Very grateful for your channel and content. Much support
Amazing. The visible spectrum for humans is approximately 1 octave ( in terms of light frequency) , which I guess is why the color wheel analogy works. It makes me wonder what vision would be like if we could see across multiple octaves.
Music is vibration. Sound waves form patterns. Frequency changes the pattern. The A above A 440 is A 880. The A below A 440 is A 220. Your math question for today: Assign a number to the A one octave above A 880. My homework assignment: Look at the number patterns in the circle of 5ths. 😊
Interestingly, perfect symmetry is the one geometric form to be wary of. Also, for those who still wonder where the Foot-Inch measurement system came from: It's not designed for straight-line (length/distance) measurement. It's not Base-10, so doesn't transpose to decimals very well. A Foot-Inch ruler is a Scaling instrument. It was created for Architectural Design. Notice that it's laid out in a doubling/sequence. 1", 1/2", 1/4", 1/8", 1/16" ... Do these divisions look familiar? Yes, the Ancients understood the relationship between Sight & Sound. Greek Temples were designed in such a way that their visual components can be assigned various components of a Musical Composition. Smart people, those Ancients! 🎼TD, Boston
This is an excellent presentation and channel. I have a different view in some places - I prefer not to say that the 4th and 5th are harmonically close to the tonic. There are other intervals much closer to my mind - ie 7th and 2nd. I think of the 4th and 5th as stable intervals which form the spine of the harmony. Stability rather than proximity. If we take a major, minor and sus2 chord in the same key, we can see that the intervals in the sus2 chord are found in both the major and minor. They are stable, but not close intervals. This tells me something about the fundamental nature of the 4th and 5th - if we go back to architecture, they are like the load bearing walls. The more nuanced harmonic information is embedded in other intervals
The concept is sound. As a visual artist who is also a composer, I would have apprfeciated thesame attention to detail with the visual (color) aspects that you applied to the aural (sound) aspect. The "primary" colors are not red-yelow-blue. It's a bit more complicated. Since pitch is perceived frequency, the equivalent quesdtion would perhaps be, "What is the perceived frequency of the color?" That has nothing to do with "paint" but everything to do with how our eyes work. That being the case, our eyes discern three basic colors of light- red-blue-green. (RGB). When making a diagram, one needs to replicate as nearly as possible the effect of light which requires a pigmented system which is cyan-magenta-yellow(CMY-K). I would agree that visually the difference is subtle but the underlying alignment of perception is not. We tend to suffer with partitioned disciplines which makes Goethe's comments and notes all the more compelling. Still, what you have done is truly valuable.
I would love to break down chords down to the true math per vibration and ratio in relation to something. There is very deep math when it comes to equal temperament and just temperment. Music has 0 meaning until the interpereter places personal value. In math, music can have constructive or destructive properties. This is how the elements work. I believe with just 3 strings each with assigned axis, can create all the matter in existence, but that's a whole other topic. Music can transend dimensions. It has real power as it is simply multiple frequency sources. Think of a microwave. The circle of fifths is simply the most efficient way of organizing a general ratio pattern. Micro tones can feel off to some, and to others give the correct emotional response, such as in horror films. This is fun stuff 😊
soo... If architecture fills space... then music fills time. and they should not be seperate? So when an instructor at the university told me to "forget everything ive learned about Lutherie* to learn 'architecture'.".... i should have said "they are one in the same, no?" *Lutherie; Manufacturing of stringed and sound box instruments (violins, guitars, etc.).
Those geometrical patterns are not in the music, but on the (geometrical) representation you chose for it. Had you chosen a numerical representation, numerical patterns would be found, or if you chose the zodiac signs to represent the pitches, you'd find astrological patterns. Heck, you can even represent music with letters, here's an Am chord: A C E. And now, an Fmaj7 chord: F A C E. Oh, a Fmaj chord is like an Am chord but with an F added on the bass, they'll probably go well together on a song. Well yes, they do because they share a bunch of notes, where's the geometry in that? Changing a triangle to a quadrilateral by adding a new vertex? Mind blowing! Not.
Why show a video and not do proper research so to give the equation of relationships between 1 and 5. You go on about musical scales but don't use a Spectrogram. This gives the answer in its smallest form. All relationships are related to other forms outside of music including quantum physics. Don't believe us just check the casimer effect and you will see the same relationship of the 1 5 at play naturally just like dropping a stone into water. It's all Pythagorean no mention of the Greeks ? The secret is π 3.14 relationship also id you really know your stuff then you will notice that the instrument is not perfect pitch and it doesn't end symmetrical on one turning but on 4 full. Its like our year with the leap year to symmetrical put things evenly
It’s not so mathematically related as described by musicians. You can make thousands if not millions of different patterns/relations by rotating, flipping, and picking any pattern randomly but in a certain order. It’s just chaotic. This is not music. I know as a matter of fact that almost every musician just makes music without knowing or applying these.
