Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00240)

In a message dated 12/12/03 1:10:25 PM, bartl@sprynet.com writes:

>leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:
>> But, there are only seven "natural" tones between the doubling of the
>> frequencies that complete the octavo. 
>
> Please define "natural" in this context.

Whole notes. Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do The white keys on the piano. 
>
>> Of course, there are other naturally repeating
>> divisions of the continuity of frequencies in both color and sound. 
>> For example the thirds and fifths. 
>
> For those who are trying to make sense of this, please look at 
>http://www.usbyte.com/common/approximate_wavelength.htm .
>
How does that help -- since it doesn't say anything about music theory 
or the science of color? In any event, it's obvious that on this lower 
plane there are no real numerical regularities -- but the real expression of such 
regularities does apply on the highest plane. and therefore they do 
significantly effect the general approximations of such regularities on the physical 
plane. Thus the general shape of the snowflake, the human body, as well as all 
the regular harmonics of Music and color keyed to the primary harmonic numbers 
1, 3, 5, 7 etc.

LHM