A study of musical scales (2017)

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Post by rwnspace » Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 9:16 AM UTC

A study of musical scales (2017)
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Post by baldfat » Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 11:51 AM UTC

WOW. As a former Music Theory 2 and Music Theory 3 student in college this is awesome. I am also very disappointed in myself for not trying to do something like this and failing earlier in my life.

There is really a lot more that could be gained from this work. I am sensing someone's PhD project.

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Post by tfeldmann » Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 1:00 PM UTC

Thank you very much, this is some fantastic content!

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Post by snarfy » Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 1:15 PM UTC

Really good content.

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Post by joeminichino » Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 1:15 PM UTC

Absolutely amazing. I'm a coder and a musician and I've been complaining to myself about a certain tendency to repetition in my compositions lately, this is amazing stuff to break patterns.

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Post by stelfer » Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 1:44 PM UTC

Thank you

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Post by swaggyBoatswain » Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 2:04 PM UTC

This is fascinating! Unfortunately I don't understand even half of it, I've been wanting to learn music theory for some time

I should go back and learn to play a musical instrument

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Post by TaupeRanger » Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 2:14 PM UTC

swaggyBoatswain wrote: post #8

This is fascinating! Unfortunately I don't understand even half of it, I've been wanting to learn music theory for some time I should go back and learn to play a musical instrument

There's not much "music theory" here aside from the knowledge that there are 12 notes which repeat in octaves. He mentions a few modes (phrygian, etc) but that's not particularly esoteric. The rest is relating those ideas to simple mathematical constructs and seeing what comes out.

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Post by z2 » Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 2:22 PM UTC

For something that puts this to action--Wolfram made a random music generator in 2005 with a ton of scales.

http://tones.wolfram.com