Fractal Music

Music Theory Background

Introduction

Music as a 2-dimensional phenomenon

Musical patterns Psychoacoustics: the logarithmic perception of pitch

Western Music

Musical sound: the harmonic series

Ancient Greek roots of the Western tonal system

Intervals

Names

Melodic and Harmonic intervals

Tuning

Scales

Basic notation

Sharps and flats

The Major scale: applying intervallic rules

Other scales

Key signatures

Time: Duration and Measures

Basic notation

Time signatures

Rests and dotted notes

Common time

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