MUSC 121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Tritone, Just Intonation, Pythagorean Tuning
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The intervals that include the of a major scale . Tonic and the fourth and fifth scale degrees. The intervals sixth, and seventh of a major scale are called . A major interval that is made . In acoustics, consonances are the intervals found as the lower members of the harmonic series, and dissonance are the higher members. In a musical sense, resolution, while dissonances are unstable and require resolution. All other intervals are and p8 (or octave) The most common enharmonic interval is called the tritones. Lower tone of an interval becomes the higher tone, and the higher tone becomes the lower tone. There are still some tuning systems that are used throughout the world almost all music in the western world that came before the . From the philosopher pythagoras, the system of tuning . This was ideal because the pure fifths, and also because other intervals,
