Music Theory for Programmers

Re:Music Theory for Programmers by simonask on Sunday September 06, 2026 @12:21PM (#49588024)

All of those systems you mention also include those so-called "pleasant" ratios.

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Re:Music Theory for Programmers by HexDecOctBin on Sunday September 06, 2026 @01:06PM (#49588528)

How would you divide 22 in small ratios, considering that 11 is a prime number?

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Re:Music Theory for Programmers by dahart on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:07AM (#49653792)

Those 22 notes are not evenly spaced, you know that, right? Primes are irrelevant.

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Re:Music Theory for Programmers by strenholme on Sunday September 06, 2026 @04:21PM (#49590496)

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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