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| Music theory for nerds (eev.ee) | ||
| recommended by 1 user | 2016 | 766 points by hardmath123 | music | original thread | | ||
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| codeulike Aug 13, 2023 | on: What Makes Music Sound Good? (2010) [pdf] | context |
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| 1. | Music Theory: An Education from First Principles (lightnote.co) | |
| recommended by 2 users | 2016 | 955 points by akalin | original thread | | ||
I find this much more useful because it talks about _why_ intervals like the octave and fifth sound 'right' and then explains how that influenced the evolution of the western scales (colloquially: why is the pattern of white/black keys on a piano that particular pattern?)
https://eev.ee/blog/2016/09/15/music-theory-for-nerds/
(posted to hn 7 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12528144 )