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CRE8 AUDIO / HARMONY

Harmony lab

Draw a chord progression in a style, rewrite it, hear it in five tunings, and take it to the Song studio.

Play loops the chords. The tuning buttons retune it while it plays.

1.1CItonicC E G
2.1DmiipredominantD F A
3.1GVdominantG B D
4.1CItonicC E G

Reading

Pop: Triads of the key in loops; the subdominant is as welcome as the dominant.

Cadences: perfect authentic into C.

100% of the root moves fall by a fifth, the strongest pull in tonal harmony.

The scale: C major

NotesC D E F G A B
Steps in semitones2 2 1 2 2 2 1
Interval vector⟨2 5 4 3 6 1⟩
Forte name7-35
Structure7 modes, 12 transpositions, maximally even, two sizes of every interval, every interval class a different number of times, the same upward and downward

Tuning the tonic chord

A pure third is 386.3 (5:4) cents and a pure fifth 702.0 (3:2). Roughness sums the beating between the partials of the three notes; lower is smoother.

TuningThird, centsFifth, centsRoughness
equal400.0700.00.889
five-limit just386.3702.00.751
pythagorean407.8702.00.902
quarter-comma meantone386.3696.60.831
werckmeister iii390.2696.10.869