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Music and sound

Tuning, temperament, overtones and the mathematics hiding in scales and rhythm.

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32 min The Mathematical Problem with Music, and How to Solve ItFormant

So I was gonna post this as its own reply but I'll just leave it here. This is an explanation of how the major scale was developed. It might be considered more of a higher level concept, but for me personally, I wish it was the first thing anyone explained to me about music theory. It gives…

Mentioned in r/musictheory

6 min The math behind the circle of fifthsPolychoron Productions

Then you could check out scales and keys, that will also really help with reading music and understanding chords. Patrick Reynolds made an epic trilogy on the Math of Musical Scales that builds on all the above concepts. And here is a video deriving the circle of fifths from maths that is very…

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43 min The Music Theory Iceberg ExplainedDavid Bennett Music Theory

And since you write you feel there is an infinite fractal-level of prerequisites, here's a cool video making it worse: Music Theory Iceberg. Or it might make it better, too, because it kind of ranks the concepts in complexity, so you can learn step by step. Or go crazy and start at the bottom,…

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5 min Why Don't All Instruments Sound The Same?12tone

I don't know what your background is but I would suggest you start with the physics of sound waves: pitch as frequency, and intervals as the ratio between different pitches' frequencies. There is this masterpiece by Formant that is probably interesting no matter your previous knowledge: The…

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18 min Why Does Music Only Use 12 Different Notes?David Bennett Music Theory

To understand musical notation better, I would look into 12 tone equal temperament. The Formant video above explores this in depths (as well as some alternatives, just intonation, meantone, pythogarean tuning). Basically, it is the practice of dividing the spectrum of frequencies between one…

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14 min Math of Musical Scales, Part 1 of 3Patrick Reynolds

Then you could check out scales and keys, that will also really help with reading music and understanding chords. Patrick Reynolds made an epic trilogy on the Math of Musical Scales that builds on all the above concepts. And here is a video deriving the circle of fifths from maths that is very…

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14 min Testing 432 Hz Frequencies (and temperaments)Adam Neely

Also might be cool to check out what happens when assigning a different frequency to different notes. In Baroque music, people tuned A to 415Hz. Classical music now tends to tune A to 440 Hz. And Adam Neely made this video testing the merits of of tuning A to 432 Hz.

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Questions about music and sound videos

Where should I start with music and sound videos?

The entries on this shelf that came up in the most Reddit threads are The Mathematical Problem with Music, and How to Solve It (32 min), Benedetti's Puzzle (mathematically impossible music) (10 min) and The Coltrane Fractal (9 min).

Are there short music and sound videos?

Yes. 12 run under 15 minutes, including Benedetti's Puzzle (mathematically impossible music) (10 min) and The Coltrane Fractal (9 min).

Where on Reddit were these music and sound videos shared?

Most came up in r/musictheory (18). A mention can be a recommendation, a question or an argument, and each video’s page says which it was.

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