All the music is microtonal

ALL THE MUSIC IS MICROTONAL

There are several topics about this matter I've thought and surely many I
must learn, but, they are enough to affirm without any fair the title.

They are :
) Where the 12 is ?
) Musical writing
) Harmonics
) Just listen
) More than 12
) Sound Spectrum
)

1) Where the 12 is ?
THEORY

All the Pyth. scales bigger than 13 notes per Octave are microtonals,
because the comma appears with the Pyth. 14.
What ? , Why I say 13 and 14 ? Where is the 12 ?
If you want to make a joke to a friend first ask him how many notes are
there in one Octave, he do answer "8", and inmediately ask him how many
notes are there in a semitonic scale per Octave. Almost everybodies will
answer "12".
The real answer is 13, because they are 12 plus 1, such of the Octave.
8 amd 12 are paradigms, we the Tuners (sometimes) use de expression
"8/Oct" and "12/Oct" as equivalents to indicate the "obvious", it is 8/Oct
means 8 notes per Octave and 12/Oct means 12 tones per Octave. We understand
the meaning, no problem, but generaly we d'ont think that their "units" are
differents.
8 means total notes and 12 means note-names (or structural notes if we
like).So to equalize concepts if we use 8/Oct we must use 13/Oct, and if we
use 12/Oct we must use 7/Oct.
I don't know if it was written something about this on the List.
Does somebody knows ?

Other fact contributing to the confusion is the double sence (it has
more) of the word "Tone" . 12tET is correct for 12 tones (intervals) and not
for 12 notes, and 8/Oct is OK for notes.
The word Tone colloquially is sometime used as Note.
















Keyboards and Fretboards.

The Piano and related has 12 key/Oct, and the Guitar and related also, has
12 frets/Oct.







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