Every Chord in the Universe - A Guide to Musical Set Theory
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- čas přidán 16. 11. 2022
- Yes I know 12TET universe although the concepts are applicable to any EDO
An accessible introduction to Musical Set Theory.
To download the Mr. PC patches (for Max/MSP standalone and Max for Live: www.miltonline.com/2022/11/18...
Note: 1) they both need the excellent and free Bach package by A. Agostini & D. Ghisi (installable in Max's Package manager) consider donating (to them). 2) For Apple Silicon computers, Max needs to be running under Rosetta. 3) These are good enough tools for teaching and music adventure - use at your own theoretical risk.
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For the painful version:
Forte, A. (1973). The structure of atonal music. New Haven ; London: Yale University Press. - Hudba
Once I've stumbled over that circle and the nature of geometrical shapes appearing in it. It helped me massively unlocking the guitar-fret board, as it behaves in the same way. The geometrical shape of the good old minor -barre' chord, its intervals making it a minor chord as well as the order of these intervals stay the same, whereas the the note names change constantly when we move it up or down the neck. I didn't study music at an university , but I've noticed many times in my private studies that there almost no accidents in music when diving deeper into its nuts and bolts.
Thank you so much for sharing these fantastic insights into the secrets of music. Your videos are always so inspiring.
You should have millions of subs these videos are so great
Thank you! I may not have many subs but I have the best ones. :)
Fascinating, thank you for opening my mind on this topic!
Good to know!
I agree. Often very useful ideas, like those of Forte, are presented in unbearably dry academic language. Thank you for putting the human touch back into set theory. 😊
Thank you!
This is going to make things so much easier for students! I've added it to my second-year reading list. Fantastic work, Milton!
Perfect - thanks for the support! I am planning many of these bite size explanations including interval classes and vectors, forte/rahn numbers, tonal systems, more on modes, global music concepts and lots of rhythm etc. Do let me know if you have ideas that would be useful.
Congratulations!
Great concept, execution, research and resources as always Milton ! Thank you
Appreciated!
Amazing work!! 🚀
only if your universe is 12edo, though
Indeed. Levels of abstraction needed. I do have numbers for microtonal construction and they are staggeringly massive.
OMG ...
I love that you began with the cardinality of the power set of a piano. I calculated this recently and laughed. 309 septillion lol
Thank you so much!
Sorry to break it to you but the actual number (as I explained in my PhD on this) is 4095. Your number (one more than this) would include the set with no pitch classes in it. Forte is also incorrect about this.
Ha! Thanks. I teach the null set as a valid 'chord' (as Forte does with 0-1) ( - as well as rests as rhythm). But if one doesn’t indeed 2^12 - 1 = 4095. Do link your PhD, sounds interesting.
I am enthralled by your presentation. However at $US9.99 per month for the MAX8 package manager I cannot justify it.
Thank you kindly! However I don’t seem to be paying anything more than my one off max msp purchase (and included with Ableton Live Suite)
@@miltonline We cannot play your app without buying a subscription. If you find something different then please let us know as your topics are interesting.
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Were can we get that patch?
Do you have max/msp?
@@miltonline Yes, both the stand alone version and the one that comes with Ableton live.
@@Dovith try this: www.miltonline.com/2022/11/18/every-chord-in-the-universe/
@@miltonline Thank you!
Interesting for sure. Can the patch apply an arbitrary colour to each of the 12 notes. I’m starting to learn set theory in a way that helps to remember common music theory which I found notoriously difficult to navigate later learned I am dyslexic. Just the logic of the numbers and figuring out chords major and minor and the keys on the fly in my head etc is much more logical. For example I use a dark primary colour on F# and a light green on F and call it F for forest. And number 5 in green too, then I refer to F as 5F. Every sharp has a dark colour so I know it’s a black note on the piano. Next I want to get fluent with the guitar fretboard and draw up a circle of fifths with the numbers and colours and the chords etc. painting colours on my piano I think is going to help with this theory too, to go down the rabbit hole of getting the hole music and playing fluent. The traditional black & white on a piano gave very little meaning, I find colours so much more distinguishing.
All clocks should of had music theory put into them as kids around the world would “get it” much better.
Thanks.