music theory: "there are four beats in this measure" me: ok music theory: "so we're gonna write it as a fraction that equals 1." me: wait
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music is basically base 8 math except for the way that math was made up all over again


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thing I don't get about base 8 is there are 7 things, and 5 things, and that makes 12 things, but none of those are 8 things.
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it's 8 things only if you count the base element for the next scale, too. But then you have overlap and that's uncanny
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I forgot to mention base 8 was also invented slightly differently.
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yes, but *twitches at the overlap*
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"look at me, I'm a C, I get to be part of TWO octaves" fuck you, C, fuck you
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actually two octaves would have 3 Cs
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kinda what I'm reading now.
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All the other intervals too. Fourth + fifth = octave. Octave + octave = fifteenth. Musicians: "This is fine."
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It's counting fenceposts rather than fences. Another weird 1-indexed language.
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If you think of an octave as an interval, instead of a range, it makes a bit more sense. Like a 24 hour "day" interval.
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No, that's how it's broken. We don't call a time interval from 2:00 to 3:00 "2 hours" nor is a day a "25ve"
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naming problems, off by one errors... is music theory secretly the same as computer science?
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