Avoid the Tritones!
My wife is taking an advanced course in Medieval Music Theory & Aethetics (T&A as it's called). Every week, I need to quiz her for her weekly, uh, quiz. The course started with Greek Musical Theory and is now in deep Medieval - which means that the quizzes are about absolutely deranged material in a weird language.
Yet, quiz her I must! Except that I don't know what the questions, or answers, mean.
An actual question: "What musical process is the figure 'que vocatur sinemenon' and why might one need one?"
Answer: "A fictal, adding accidentals, to avoid the tritones."
And, by gum, it does!
My wife is taking an advanced course in Medieval Music Theory & Aethetics (T&A as it's called). Every week, I need to quiz her for her weekly, uh, quiz. The course started with Greek Musical Theory and is now in deep Medieval - which means that the quizzes are about absolutely deranged material in a weird language.
Yet, quiz her I must! Except that I don't know what the questions, or answers, mean.
An actual question: "What musical process is the figure 'que vocatur sinemenon' and why might one need one?"
Answer: "A fictal, adding accidentals, to avoid the tritones."
And, by gum, it does!
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