{"id":490,"date":"2012-12-04T17:17:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T01:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=490"},"modified":"2017-08-18T09:09:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T16:09:37","slug":"the-minor-seventh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"The Minor Seventh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The farther we get from the center, the less consonant the notes are, when played against the tonic. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Consonance_and_dissonance\">Consonance<\/a> is a whole subject. It&#8217;s generally spoken of as though it could be plotted on a scale, from consonance to dissonance. I think this is a big mistake. Consonance has more than one dimension. Trying to force these independent dimensions of consonance onto a one-dimensional scale leads to unnecessary confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Anywayy &#8230; The minor seventh is a pretty dissonant note in all dimensions. It&#8217;s three moves away from the tonic, down a third and up two fifths:<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"b7\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dhDDhddfsD0?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>The ratio is 9\/5.<\/p>\n<p>This is some beautiful, exotic harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a progression that shows off the flavor of the b7, in just intonation:<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1 b3 b6 JI\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sqTnOLV7y0g?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>Hey, that&#8217;s beautiful! I worked it out as an illustration, with the idea of showcasing the minor seventh, and it turned out to be really nice music.<\/p>\n<p>See why I&#8217;m in love with the lattice? It&#8217;s a beauty engine.<\/p>\n<p>Next:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/?p=499\">Untempered Vs. Tempered<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The farther we get from the center, the less consonant the notes are, when played against the tonic. Consonance is a whole subject. It&#8217;s generally spoken of as though it could be plotted on a scale, from consonance to dissonance. I think this is a big mistake. Consonance has more than one dimension. Trying to&#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,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[43,298,84,10,131],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-notes","tag-beauty","tag-book","tag-consonance","tag-just-intonation","tag-minor-seventh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garygarrett.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}