The real and virtual Tro Sor (soprano erhu) included in this app play heptatonic music based on seven equal tones per octave. Unlike a piano or a guitar consisting of 12 half-tone steps per octave (a complete musical sound system), they may sound out of tune for first-time listeners.
This app includes two Mohori Bird song scores (in English and Khmer), a Touch-Screen musical module (virtual erhu), an interval (cents) calculator, short tutorials and videos in Khmer with translation in English explaining music theory and how to play the song on your Smartphone or a real erhu.
A piano or a guitar step is 100 cents, i.e., a 1200-cent octave divided by 12, the number of steps before a sound repeats itself higher or lower. On old Cambodian musical instruments, a step varies from 168 to 211 cents, most frequently 171.43 cents (1200/7) in Buddhist monasteries or royal settings where musicians had received formal trainings
since childhood, as opposed to self-taught musicians and instruments makers who came up with new intervals. First 18th-century European travelers, set out on adventurous trips to Southeast Asia, described as “suave” the music that reached their ears through the monsoon dense vegetation. They heard heptatonic music (hepta: 7 and tonic : tone).
Today, even though it’s not totally vanished into oblivion, heptatonic music draws very little interest from Khmer traditional musicians to the extent that many think it’s out of tune and tune their instrument like a piano or a guitar. So this app could turn out to be another classic case of Technology coming to the rescue of a forgotten civilization.
Short illustrations and a sound waves DIY yourself experiment wrap up this app in an attempt to lay the groundwork for future generations of Khmer musicians familiar with Nanotechnology, Quantum Mechanics (Wave Mechanics) and Artificial Intelligence, to find out more about Music which is not only a co-evolutionary aspect of the human species along with spoken languages but a defining characteristic of Matter* as De Broglie (Joseph Sauveur before him in the 18th century) and later on Schrodinger proved if the ubiquitous electrons spinning around the nucleus of an atom don’t disintegrate into its core, it’s because there is a thing called “Standing Wave” the length of which is twice the length of a musical instrument scale length that, when pressed down at the middle, makes the same sound as the sound it produces when vibrating freely on its whole length without any finger pressing on it. Across cultures around the world, this string-wave phenomenon, known as Octave (oct- : 8) is true for all musical instruments with fixed strings at both ends.
This app includes two Mohori Bird song scores (in English and Khmer), a Touch-Screen musical module (virtual erhu), an interval (cents) calculator, short tutorials and videos in Khmer with translation in English explaining music theory and how to play the song on your Smartphone or a real erhu.
A piano or a guitar step is 100 cents, i.e., a 1200-cent octave divided by 12, the number of steps before a sound repeats itself higher or lower. On old Cambodian musical instruments, a step varies from 168 to 211 cents, most frequently 171.43 cents (1200/7) in Buddhist monasteries or royal settings where musicians had received formal trainings
since childhood, as opposed to self-taught musicians and instruments makers who came up with new intervals. First 18th-century European travelers, set out on adventurous trips to Southeast Asia, described as “suave” the music that reached their ears through the monsoon dense vegetation. They heard heptatonic music (hepta: 7 and tonic : tone).
Today, even though it’s not totally vanished into oblivion, heptatonic music draws very little interest from Khmer traditional musicians to the extent that many think it’s out of tune and tune their instrument like a piano or a guitar. So this app could turn out to be another classic case of Technology coming to the rescue of a forgotten civilization.
Short illustrations and a sound waves DIY yourself experiment wrap up this app in an attempt to lay the groundwork for future generations of Khmer musicians familiar with Nanotechnology, Quantum Mechanics (Wave Mechanics) and Artificial Intelligence, to find out more about Music which is not only a co-evolutionary aspect of the human species along with spoken languages but a defining characteristic of Matter* as De Broglie (Joseph Sauveur before him in the 18th century) and later on Schrodinger proved if the ubiquitous electrons spinning around the nucleus of an atom don’t disintegrate into its core, it’s because there is a thing called “Standing Wave” the length of which is twice the length of a musical instrument scale length that, when pressed down at the middle, makes the same sound as the sound it produces when vibrating freely on its whole length without any finger pressing on it. Across cultures around the world, this string-wave phenomenon, known as Octave (oct- : 8) is true for all musical instruments with fixed strings at both ends.
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