{"id":589,"date":"2008-07-23T03:48:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T08:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=589"},"modified":"2008-07-23T03:48:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T08:48:12","slug":"a-relatively-good-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/589","title":{"rendered":"A Relatively Good Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=532\">Musical Relativity<\/a> at the ArXiv blog<\/p>\n<p>From the paper:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is known that certain triads sound \u201chappy\u201d, while others sound \u201csad\u201d.<br \/>\nWhy this is so has been a question on minds of many musicologists, composers, musicians and<br \/>\nmusic lovers for a very long time and theories have been put forward. References to some works in<br \/>\nthis area can be found in the recent book by Loy. But the question of \u201cWhy?\u201d is beyond the scope<br \/>\nof this work. In this paper, we simply show that under specific physical conditions, a chord sounds<br \/>\nhappy or sad depending not only on the observer\u2019s subjective interpretation, but also on his frame<br \/>\nof reference. In other words, the musical \u201cmood\u201d depends on the observer\u2019s state of motion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, &#8220;that note sounds flat!&#8221; becomes &#8220;you&#8217;re moving at the wrong speed!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musical Relativity at the ArXiv blog From the paper: It is known that certain triads sound \u201chappy\u201d, while others sound \u201csad\u201d. Why this is so has been a question on minds of many musicologists, composers, musicians and music lovers for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/589\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}