Testing 432 Hz Frequencies (and temperaments)

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magicalhippo · 2022-08 · Recommendation

Your post reminded me of a video[1] Adam Neely made where he explored some (to me) weird tunings, starting with one where A = 432Hz. As someone who hasn't taken any musical theory or similar, it was quite interesting to hear. [1]: [VIDEO]

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pythko · 2022-02 · Recommendation

Traditional western music assigns 12 notes to an octave using a tuning known as Twelve Tone Equal Temperament[1]. These twelve tones include whole tones and semitones. The vast majority of western music is composed exclusively using these twelve notes. I believe the GGP meant to refer to “microtones,” which are frequencies that don’t fall into the Twelve Tone Equal Temperament tuning system. These are commonly used in non-western music (Indian music is a typical example), and occasionally in some western music styles (blues, some jazz, some sub-genres of rock, maybe), but you’re not going to find microtones in most western music. The use of microtones would greatly expand the set of possible melodies, but those melodies would also sound very weird to someone who has grown up listening to western music. Also, these legal cases are not decided by precisely comparing the relative frequencies of notes in two different melodies. Relating all this to the article, I personally feel like music is not a good parallel for the topic of academic plagiarism since the idea is the whole point of academic papers, whereas the point of music is harder to pin down, but it’s certainly not only to expand the set of melodies and chords used in songs. Anyways, for more on music theory, I’d suggest Adam Neely’s YouTube channel [2]. [1] [LINK] [2] such as this video: [VIDEO]

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viraptor · 2022-01 · Recommendation

If anyone's interested in more about this topic, Adam Neely did interesting videos about this: [VIDEO] and [LINK] (beware, starts with satire) Edit: I watched the second one again, and it actually gives some reason why 432Hz may be preferred in some way in this test.

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