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Light music

October 16, 2017 · by Chris Weeks | in Acoustics, Classical music | tagged harmonics, major triad, overtones, partials

Synaesthesia – in this case a crossover between seeing and hearing, light and music. There are  many of examples of this, at least on the music side, Scriabin’s Poem of Fire (its score includes a colour organ) and Messiaen’s Couleurs de la Cité Céleste are among the famous examples. — “I’ve tried to get into my work the […]

A major difference

October 9, 2017 · by Chris Weeks | in Acoustics, Classical music | tagged harmonics, major triad, overtones, partials

A fanfare for the major triad: It’s everywhere. Apart from being the principal building block of most music, its (sometimes) dulcet tones are used in shops, stations, airports and elsewhere to alert us to announcements of impending joy or (more frequently) gloom. It has a sibling but, unlike the bright, stable major, minor is darker […]

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