Audio Examples for Kyle Gann's
The Arithmetic of Listening:
Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician Chapter 1: The Cosmic Joke
Demonstration of Cent Sizes:
The following recording alternates between a drone note and a higher note
that ascends one cent with each new note; in other words, the first interval is one cent (and back down), the second two
cents, the third three cents, and so on up to fifty cents (a quarter-tone):
Here are a series of scales up and down with the following interval sizes: 5 cents,
10 cents, 15 cents, 22 cents, 30 cents:
Here we hear three pure 5/4 major thirds stacked up, not quite equaling one octave:
If you find any problems with the examples, e-mail me here
The following recording alternates between a drone note and a higher note that ascends one cent with each new note; in other words, the first interval is one cent (and back down), the second two cents, the third three cents, and so on up to fifty cents (a quarter-tone):
If you find any problems with the examples, e-mail me here
