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simonask
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Music Theory for Programmers
All of those systems you mention also include those so-called "pleasant" ratios.
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strenholme
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Indeed. Bobby McFerrin has a demonstration where, regardless of culture, the pentatonic scale is universal. For the record, a just major pentatonic scale is the notes with the intervals (from the root note) 1, 9/8, 5/4, 3/2, and 5/3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk
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HexDecOctBin
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How would you divide 22 in small ratios, considering that 11 is a prime number?
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dahart
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Those 22 notes are not evenly spaced, you know that, right? Primes are irrelevant.
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