When Musical Notes do not Resonate

Looking beyond the major and minor scales

What makes music so musical?

The first article of this series provided a methodology to analyze the frequencies of the major scale. In particular, what happens when two notes on the scale were combined. This experiment found that any note on the major scale had reasonable resonance with the fundamental note, but some resonances were better than others:

Solving the Mystery of the Major Scale

The second article did a similar analysis with the minor scale. Again, all the minor notes resonated with the fundamental, but in a different way to give us that different mood the minor scale brings.

Solving the Minor Scale Mystery

The 12th Root of Two Notes

The first article also discussed the 12 divisions between the fundamental and its…