User:Squib

i have a user page now :)

music theory that does not have a name yet

A number of things bother me about the way tuning is done on this wiki and in general, in particular octave/tritave equivalence, generators, and the excessive use of hard-to-understand vocabulary and math which often isn't even all that relevant or helpful. The last one should not be a surprise; the first two might be. I find generators extremely unintuitive, and while they may be useful for things, that does not mean I have to like them. I also dislike the concept of equivalence in general. I think *every* pitch should be considered its own thing.

So I decided to formalize the ideas that I have been exploring into a music theory, inspired by Caftaphata.

Terms

First, some terms. Most of these are widely-used but I might be using them slightly differently here.

- Harmonic series The set of pitches with frequencies that are integer multiples of the fundamental, including the fundamental itself. This is called the harmonic series of that fundamental.