Re: Virtual pitch


"LJS" <ljschenck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The LOW NOTE is the fundamental of the vertical structure. Now, if the
low note is a passing tone, the ear will retain the original
fundamental, and as musicians we can "reconstruct" the fundamental by
notes that are higher in the series. i.e. we can "guess" that the HS
is of the C, but the fundamental is still really the lowest note, this
being a G in the example of the Cadential 6/4 chord.


I'm confused by this discussion which seems to confuse using the acoustical
term "fundamental" with the harmonic term "root". It seems that you hear
CPP chords as only containing tones of the bass note's overtone series. So
what would be the fundamentals of the following chords - the first note
given is the bass: C Eb F# A; C E G#; or B# D F# A? These are all normal,
CPP chords (the last being a German 6th in 7/5/3 position). In context, I
can certainly identify their roots and assign Roman Numerals to them, but
I'm not so sure I can hear their "fundamentals" as you have described the
term.

Tom K.


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