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February 15, 2012
Perfect fifth
Bear McCreary explains why many science fiction theme tunes rely on the perfect fifth.
There is something fundamentally natural about that octave, and then a fifth relationship, that happens in sound. This is not something that composers came up with this, this is something that happens in the physical universe as we know it. So that makes it feel very strong... because you play a note and then you play the octave above it, you're reinforcing overtones.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 15, 2012 08:47 AM