I think this comment may have been written for someone else to read, it's less of a "head start" and more of a "let's review the fundamentals".
My point about the chromatic scale not being "correct" is that it's inconvenient to make the chromatic scale the primary scale we use in notation. We certainly make use of the chromatic scale, but we notate its use with accidentals and key changes.
That doesn't work well for some of Schönberg's works and it doesn't work at all for some of Wendy Carlos, but traditional music notation seems to work pretty well most of the time, and anything based on a chromatic scale would be inferior most of the time.
> I think this comment may have been written for someone
> else to read, it's less of a "head start" and more of a
> "let's review the fundamentals".
Early hours of morning here, no doubt flawed.
> My point about the chromatic scale not being "correct"
> is that it's inconvenient to make the chromatic scale
> anything based on a chromatic scale would be inferior
> most of the time.
My point about the chromatic scale not being "correct" is that it's inconvenient to make the chromatic scale the primary scale we use in notation. We certainly make use of the chromatic scale, but we notate its use with accidentals and key changes.
That doesn't work well for some of Schönberg's works and it doesn't work at all for some of Wendy Carlos, but traditional music notation seems to work pretty well most of the time, and anything based on a chromatic scale would be inferior most of the time.