Lecture Notes for March 7

March 7, 2002


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Table of Contents

Consonance / Dissonance and the Just Scale

Musical interval

Consonance and Dissonance

Complex tones

Conclusion: simple number ratios are consonant

Construction of the Just Scale

Just Scale

Frequency ratios of intervals

Major just diatonic scale

Cents

Author: Willy Haeberli

Email: whaeberli@uwnuc0.physics.wisc.edu

Home Page: http://nuclear.physics.wisc.edu/~haeberli/

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