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<DIV>Hallo Marcel and others,</DIV>
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<DIV>You wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV>“We are from birth hard-wired to "quantize" the interval space by a chain
of perfect fifths and octaves.<BR>That is, we identify unique intervals
according to this "algorithm". Music is built upon this.”</DIV>
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<DIV>You are right about the octave. Today there is a biology of the octave. But
there is no biology of the fifth. From our knowledge of the auditory brain that
we have today – as little as that may be – it seems unlikely that we will ever
see a biology of the fifth.</DIV>
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<DIV>Many humans can learn the chain of fifths as something apparently natural.
But the main reason may be that in harmonic sound spectra the group of
fifth-related partials is the second strongest group after the group of
octave-related partials.</DIV>
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<DIV>Martin Braun<BR>Neuroscience of Music<BR>S-66492 Värmskog<BR>Sweden<BR><A
href="http://www.neuroscience-of-music.se/index.htm">http://www.neuroscience-of-music.se/index.htm</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=marcel@justintonation.com
href="mailto:marcel@justintonation.com">Marcel de Velde</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 23, 2014 1:35 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org
href="mailto:smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org">smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Smt-talk] Question About The First 16 Partials Of The
Harmonic Overtone Series</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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