>
> Except for one little thing--the twelve-tones of the chromatic scale
> reflect the basic physics of sound. The interval of the fifth is the second
> overtone of the fundamental vibration and the twelve-tone series is nothing
> but the succession of fifths:C-G-D-A-E-B-F#-C#-G#-D#-A#-E#. That is a law
> of nature, and human intellectual progress consists of recognizing,
> understanding, and utilizing the laws of nature--in music as in everything
> else.
>
> Shane Mage
>
I don't know musical theory, and I am not a physicist, can you tell me why C(?) is fundamental, what is it fundamental to and why it is more fundamental than some other vibration? Also, why fifths? Does this posit base ten and also that base ten is somehow more fundamental or natural than other mathematical bases? The anti-naturalistic political ecologist, Alan