Fact Check - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Fact Check
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McClain[1] (1976: pp. 19f.) pointed out that the 2:1 interval can only generate octaves: CC’cc’ and so forth. But it cannot “fill out” these octaves with tones. For that, “male” intervals are necessary, beginning with 3. This is basic Cosmology 101.
Can someone familiar with this musical concept or who can research it check this point and add exposition if necessary (associating numbers with being “male” for example)?
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- ↑ Ernest G. McClain, The Myth of Invariance: The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics and Music from the Rg Veda to Plato (Maine: 1976), pp. 19f.
