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Re:Music theory for nerds by dharma1 on Monday September 19, 2016 @11:41AM (#12532255)
The phase of a sound wave doesn't play a role in the context of compositions or scales. It does of course play a role in audio in general though - in recording, and analog and digital signal processing etc.
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Re:Music theory for nerds by anentropic on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @06:41AM (#12538441)
they're not talking about phase of the sound wave but "phase" of the scale notes as an alternative way of describing what music theory calls modes
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