[lbo-talk] Language, music, and Kenneally

[Alan Rudy]

>
>  On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Shane Mage  wrote:
> The "fundamental" vibration is the "note" you hear.  That note is not a
> pure tone--it includes a series of secondary vibrations of which the
> strongest ("first") is the repetition of that tone (the "octave") at twice
> the frequency of the fundamental, and the "second" (second strongest) is the
> "fifth" at 1.5 times the frequency of the fundamental vibration.  I could,
> of course, have started the example series with any value, but C is
> convenient because the six accidentals ("sharp" or "flat" notes) come at the
> second half of the series that way.

Thanks, that helps a lot, the claim of naturalness resides not in the note
frequencies themselves but in the multiplication/division of the notes
between halvings or doublings of frequencies... so the naturalness is in the
mathematization (or discovery of the math "behind" the music).  Is that
right?