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joker
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Re: creating wav's ?
« Reply #17 on: Dec 27th, 2016, 10:09am » |
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Quote:| ... so why is it called an octave? ... |
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You asked this question, and the answer has little to do with mathematics as I found over and over.
There's no doubt that musicians can count, too. I've seen them tap their feet. 
Quote:| ... it's mathematics that we are discussing here every bit as much as music! ... |
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Music wasn't created by mathematicians ... those came later trying to explain music, and they generally make terrible music.
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Richard Russell
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Re: creating wav's ?
« Reply #18 on: Dec 27th, 2016, 11:43am » |
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on Dec 27th, 2016, 10:09am, pnlawrence wrote:| Music wasn't created by mathematicians. |
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True. But now music and mathematics cannot be separated: after all this thread is about sampling theory, the Nyquist criterion and synthesising music from sine waves!
Asking why it's called an octave was perhaps tongue-in-cheek, but it led the OP astray into thinking (quite understandably, if he has no musical background) that there are eight notes rather than seven in an octave. He was similarly misled by the ambiguous term "semitone" into thinking there were 16 of those in an octave!
So whilst we can, I hope, agree on the historical perspective, claiming that there are eight notes in an octave - which many musicians persist in doing even today - is plain wrong and unhelpful.
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Re: creating wav's ?
« Reply #19 on: Dec 27th, 2016, 2:45pm » |
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Dang! I almost got Richard to say that I found the answer to his question ... almost!
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Richard Russell
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Re: creating wav's ?
« Reply #20 on: Dec 27th, 2016, 4:18pm » |
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on Dec 27th, 2016, 2:45pm, pnlawrence wrote:| Dang! I almost got Richard to say that I found the answer to his question ... almost! |
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Kudos for being almost as pedantic as I am.
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Jack Kelly
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Re: creating wav's ?
« Reply #21 on: Dec 27th, 2016, 6:25pm » |
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This conversation reminds me of a quote by Leonard Bernstein. He was giving a talk on 'The future of classical music in the 21st century'. In conclusion he said, "I can't remember what the question was, but the answer is 'yes' and it will be chromatic."
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