{"id":306,"date":"2012-11-14T13:29:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T21:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=306"},"modified":"2017-08-18T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T16:00:07","slug":"t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Harmonic Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now to relate all this to the lattice in the <a title=\"Flying Dream on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=103\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to music is like going on a journey. Most <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tonality\">tonal music<\/a> starts by establishing a center, or basic note, and a basic harmonic framework for the song, such as a major or minor mode. A few melody notes, and a beginning chord, and you have some idea of the space in which the journey will be occurring. Strauss&#8217; <em>Also Sprach Zarathustra<\/em> (of 2001 fame) is a great example. The famous opening section, called &#8220;Sunrise,&#8221; gives an extremely clear sense of <em>home.<\/em> You know exactly where you are, sonically.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra \/ 2001 Space Odyssey opening theme\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SLuW-GBaJ8k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>By the way, it&#8217;s fun to hum this while using an electric toothbrush.<\/p>\n<p>The piece goes on to travel away from this home, and back again, many times. The journey takes place in a space of some sort, an auditory environment.<\/p>\n<p>But what might this space <em>look<\/em> like? One way to visualize music is staff notation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/800px-Chopin_Prelude_7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-308\" title=\"800px-Chopin_Prelude_7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/800px-Chopin_Prelude_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/800px-Chopin_Prelude_7.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/800px-Chopin_Prelude_7-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s beautiful, and if I know how to read it, it will tell me what the music sounds like. It doesn&#8217;t do such a good job of showing me <em>why<\/em> music sounds the way it does. Neither staff notation, nor the 12-tone scale, gives me a particularly clear idea of how music works. Why would this be restful and sonorous:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/major2.mp3\">major<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While this, though beautiful in a different way, has tremendous tension? Sounds like the villain (or the cat) is about to pop out and scare you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/aug.mp3\">aug<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, okay, here&#8217;s the resolution:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/major2.mp3\">major<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aaahh.<\/p>\n<p>If I know a lot about music theory, I can interpret the notation and come up with explanations. The second example is an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Augmented_triad\">augmented<\/a> chord, and yes it sounds like that. But <em>why<\/em>, Mom, wh-wh-why?<\/p>\n<p>Next:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=342\">The Lattice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now to relate all this to the lattice in the video. Listening to music is like going on a journey. Most tonal music starts by establishing a center, or basic note, and a basic harmonic framework for the song, such as a major or minor mode. A few melody notes, and a beginning chord, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[67,298,62,61,64,66,68,63,65,35,16],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thelattice","tag-augmented","tag-book","tag-harmonic-space","tag-home","tag-notation","tag-resolution","tag-space","tag-staff","tag-tension","tag-tonality","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}