RE: Barbershop

>}I think that most people recognize that barbershop harmonies sound better
>}than piano harmonies. If you can hear the difference, doesn't that make it
>}a "perceptually distinct pitch set"? Maybe I'm just splitting hairs...
>
>I think that many people will hear the difference but not know whether any
>particular pitch is being adjusted upwards or downwards -- they will simply
>detect a difference analagous to a change in timbral quality on the chordal
>level. An adjustment large enough to evoke a non-diatonic pitch (I mean
>diatonic in the sense of several closely related heptatonic keys), however
>well-motivated harmonically, will have a different effect, probably not one
>that most people would find pleasant.


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