Re: Harmonic reduction

[John Helly]

Well, maybe I'm the music shop assistant who works as  a part-time
electronics technician and pipes-up, 'Sounds like you need a spectrum
analyzer, sometimes known as a grahpical EQ'.
J.

On 6/22/20 00:59, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote:
> Hi Urs,
>
>>> Also, Schönberg gave (in his Harmonielehre) funny examples of
>>> "impossible" sonorities taken from Bach's Motetten by just stopping
>>> the
>>> music at the right (or wrong?) time, together with equally funny
>>> jibes
>>> against the "aestheticians", or from Mozart's symphonies (also
>>> attached).
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe all I'm saying here is that any such automated tool for
>>> "musical
>>> analysis" would have to be highly configurable.
>> Very valid points, indeed. However, it seems I'm persistently not
>> making myself clear.
>> I'm not looking for musical interpretation/analysis, just for a
>> visualization of what is sounding at the same time, to get a visual
>> idea about the harmonies resulting from polyphonic settings.
>
> Well yes, that's what your example conveyed. I think I tried to
> dispute the meaningfulness of such a visualization, since depending on
> the compositional techniques used, such a representation is very
> likely cluttered with all sorts of dissonant notes that the
> "knowledgeable ear" integrates into higher-order structures.
>
> But of course you know all of this, and I should just assume that you
> have good reasons for wanting to have what you described and gave an
> example for. Maybe I'm behaving like the music shop assistant who some
> years ago, when I asked for an electric tuning device with a special
> feature (ability to display the deviation from equal-temperament _in
> cents_), just looked at me knowingly and said: "Oh, but you don't need
> this." :-)
>
> Best
> Lukas
>
>

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