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 > > -- ================================================ University of Hawaii, Maui College / Mobile 760.840.8660
