Music Rooted in Human Speech

[hairhorn]

was this a comparison of English to a 12-tone scale? Because there are so many other languages and so many different kinds of scales.

[richardmullins44]

I am wondering if some very musical effects, such as vibrato , will be analysed by your system as semitone intervals. Maybe not.

[richardmullins44]

Interesting. What are the other 32% of the intervals that did not fit into the chromatic scale. Do you have a theory for what they are?

e.g. are musical effects such as vibrato, detectable as semitone intervals - maybe not.

[richardmullins44]

Interesting. You say 68% of the intervals foudn in speech are intervals of the semitone scale. Do you have a theory about what the other 32% are?

[purplenoise2002]

Biiiiig surprise.... The harmonics of any periodic wave are *already* most of the time musical intervals that can be found in the chromatic scale. The glotal pulse is a periodic wave. Formant filtering is just a subsetting of those harmonics. What you discovered is that if you take a set of harmonically related tones and take away most of them, then what remains is still harmonically related tones.

[yubnubs]

sunywoo is dumb. its a good study. it didnt help anyone but at least they found out that people talk on half steps 60 whatever % of the time. youre dumb

[sunywoo]

absolutely dum... Ever play a chord on a guitar???? u should try it sometime

[sh3l1]

it is also "dum" to spell "dum" as D-U-M