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Define just minor and major thirds, please. Beatless? And how do they
compare to tempered minor and major thirds in size? <br>
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I hear that minor third (B-G#) as very small, and very pleasingly small,
smaller than it would sound on a piano. Others, too, different than
tempered, but on the opposite side from "just", i.e., minor
thirds smaller, major thirds and major sixths wider. <br>
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Your spectral analyzer listens to the doublestopped intervals? Can you in
some way measure successive tones in the melodic line -- i.e. how small
is the G#-A semitone? <br>
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(thanks) <br>
<br>
Susan <br>
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At 10:17 AM 5/8/2002 -0700, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Susan, thanks for choosing a
specific example. I took the begining of the piece and ran it through a
spectral analysis so that I could extract each of the fundemental
frequiencies:<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>This is the very first phrase (4
measures)</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>B
A</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>G# A# G# F# E F# G#
A G# F# A G#
F# E D# E F# B</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>B - G# =1.2</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>B - A =1.16 (1.167)</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>B - F# =1.38 (1.4)</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>B - E = 1.5</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>A - D# = 1.39 (1.4)</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>A -E = 1.33</font><br>
<font face="arial" size=2>A - F# = 1.19 (1.2)</font><br>
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The intervals in (brackets) are the theoretically just intervals,
everything else hit dead on; that's why it sounds so pleasing. I don't
know what else to say . . . they are just intervals.<br>
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Bradley M. Snook</blockquote></html>