music by numbers

[Katja <e.k.vetter@freeler.nl>]

Hello Ernesto, Jim, Mark, D.G.,

Everything in music goes by numbers: scales, harmonies, frequencies, beats 
and bars....The Tone Clock is nothing more than a visual aid in sharpening 
the awareness of meaningful harmonical structures, and as such it shows 
worlds of possibilities beyond the obligatory major and minor. The Tone 
Clock distinguishes itself from certain more personal compositorial 
systems 
in the sense that it is relevant for most existing music in twelve tone 
equal temperament. It's a pity the site shows quite limited information, 
there's more on internet but it's all in Dutch. The ninth hour (of the 
Tone 
Clock, yes) shows the intervals d-g and g-c: a triad composed of two 
fourths. In the twelve tone scale there's twelve unique triads, twelve 
'hours', and the hours seem to show connections which cover patterns in 
lots of traditional and classical Western musics. I am not a composer, but 
I can imagine a composer's fascination in discovering a geometrical 
pattern 
underlying practically all Western music, containing more experimental 
links still to be tested! I have the same kind of fascination with sound 
content and frequencies. OK, you like a sound or you don't, no matter if 
you are familiar with acoustical theory, but if you want to control your 
sound production or create new sounds, it helps to know how sound is 
generated, and which are the fysical patterns governing sound production.

Katja.


Tone Clock link: www.xs4all.nl/~taede/toonklok/artikel/tonecl-e.htm