Why does Western music divide the octave into 12 different notes? Why not 13, or 19 or 24 notes? For such a simple sounding question, the answer is actually a tangle of history, physics and human preference. Get ready for some serious music theory!
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Gamelan Music: • Sound Tracker Gamelan (Indonesia)
12Tone talking 12TET: • TET for Tat: Why Do We Use 12 Notes?
Where does the 12tone scale come from: • Where does the 12tone scale come from?
Audio Spectrum (AdminOfThisSite): • 20Hz to 20kHz (Human Audio Spectrum)
Perception of Octaves: https://www.quantamagazine.org/percep...
Playable Harmonic Series: https://alexanderchen.github.io/harmo...
Octave circularity in the auditory brain: http://www.neuroscienceofmusic.se/e...
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