Re: [microsound] math anxiety

["<<< audi sensa >>>" <audisensa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> consonant. It has no experiential reality. Mathematics
> has been used to explain musical form and syntax - for
> example arriving back in the home key of a sonata. But
> in fact, psychological experiments show that
> listeners, even very experienced listeners, generally
> cannot tell if a piece ends in the "wrong" key. As
> long as the key is prepared as if it were the home
> key.
>

wow, you just perfectly summed up how i've always felt about ornette
coleman...