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| author | julian laplace <julescarbon@gmail.com> | 2025-07-07 22:45:56 +0200 |
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| committer | julian laplace <julescarbon@gmail.com> | 2025-07-07 22:45:56 +0200 |
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@@ -354,14 +354,14 @@ first demonstrates how one plays harmonics on a monochord. He then shows it next to a grid of whole-number ratios, and demonstrates how one can use these intervals to find specific ratios. I had never seen - the concept of just intonation displayed so elegantly, so I made this - page to understand the concept more deeply. + just intonation demonstrated so elegantly, so I made this page to + understand the concept more deeply. </p> <p> I later learned that I had recreated the <a href="https://www.lambdoma.com/">Lambdoma</a> as described by <a href="https://www.lambdoma.com/">Barbara Hero</a>. Hero made an - electronic lambdoma instrument for sound healing purposes. Hero traces + electronic lambdoma instrument for sound healing purposes. She traces the Lambdoma back to the <i>Introduction to Arithmetic</i> by <a href="https://archive.org/details/nicomachus-introduction-to-arithmetic/page/191/mode/1up" @@ -374,23 +374,27 @@ target="_blank" >depicts it</a > - in his <i>Die harmonikale Symbolik des Alterthums</i> (1876). In the - Lambdoma, Hero also sees the image of Georg Cantor's transfinite set - of rational numbers, which are shown to be countable through use of a - Cartesian plot. More can be read in Hero's + in <i>Die harmonikale Symbolik des Alterthums</i> (1876). More can be + read in Hero's <a href="https://lambdoma.com/pdfs/the-lambdoma-matrix-and-harmonic-intervals.pdf" target="_blank" >article</a - >, <i>The Lambdoma Matrix and Harmonic Intervals</i> (1999). + >, <i>The Lambdoma Matrix and Harmonic Intervals</i> (1999). In the + Lambdoma, Hero also sees the image of Georg Cantor's transfinite set + of rational numbers ℚ, which Cantor showed to be countably infinite + through use of a Cartesian plot (versus the uncountable continuity of + real numbers ℝ). </p> <p> With the root, fifth, and fourth in the top-left corner, the Lambdoma shows how the 3/2 proportion is essential to the perception of consonance. The musical circle of fifths, derived from these simple - proportions, can be studied in more detail in "Pythagorean" mode, - where related intervals can be found by color and compared. + proportions, can be studied in more detail in "Pythagorean" mode. + Similar notes can be found by color and compared, and one can easily + hear how stacked fifths overshoot the octave by finding the next red + note. </p> <h2>thank you!</h2> |
