Re: How important are overtones?



J Jensen wrote:
>
> All of us are very sophisticated musical processors aurally. The
> purpose of music theory is to write out formally what is happening
> internal to the listener's mind.
>
> Thus if people are talking about a perfect 4th sounding "dissonant"
> (or more precisely, "not functioning as a point of rest") then it had
> better actually sound like that!

Tell that to Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, not me.

> c-f does fit the bill, but g -c does
> not;
> it sounds perfectly acceptable to cadence to that, especially if
> you emphasize the c.
>
> By the way, I had this discussion some time ago with Charton
> Wilbur and Matt Fields and they seemed to concur that c -f is
> the perfect 4th in question.

I think that maybe you didn't understand what they were telling you.


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