The previous post discussed a tune ending in the following
sequence of notes (symbols as in a Wikipedia article):
C#4 B4 A4 E4 G4 .
(This sequence was approximated in that post by integers
representing the relative frequencies of the notes: 5 9 8 6 7 .)
Yesterday’s simple tune may suggest to some a similar refrain:
D4 E4 C4 C3 G3 .
This is, as a helpful page at Ars Nova Software explains,
the theme from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
The notes of the just intonation major scale:
The corresponding ratios from Close Encounters are…
9/8 5/4 1/1 1/2 3/4 , or, in whole numbers, 9 10 8 4 6.
These numbers also correspond, as in yesterday’s post, to the notes
B4 C#5 A4 A3 E4 .
Click the image below to try this on an online keyboard, playing keys
9 10 8 4 6 for Close Encounters.
“And you can tell everybody this is your song…”
