From Stacking Threes to 12-TET

When we left off of stacking threes, we’d arrived at a power of three (531441) that was close enough to some power of 2 (524288) such that dividing them gave us a value that was approximately equal to 1.00 (531441/524288 =~ 1.0136). We then took that approximation and treated it as if it actually was … Read more

Time Signatures, Sums, and Maximum Products

I promise it’s not as complex as it sounds. A couple days ago I was visiting musictheory.net/lessons, trying to reinforce some basic knowledge, and I got to the section on rhythm and meter, namely time signatures. (The fundamental thing to know about reading time signatures is that the top number represents the number of beats … Read more

Stacking Threes on the Harmonic Series

You start out with the harmonic series, let’s say using 110 Hz (A) as the base frequency along with all of its multiples. 110 Hz, 220 Hz, 330 Hz, 440 Hz, 550 Hz, 660 Hz, 770 Hz, 880 Hz, 990 Hz, 1100 Hz, and so on … Each multiple can be said to be an … Read more

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