Exploring 19-TET Part 4: Dominant Chords

Why is no one talking about the h7(#3) chord?

[abdula]

These harmony explorations are quite profound! Man, your video is criminally underrated. Microtonal music theory is truly an interesting topic

[mrcet]

This video is the best in this series so far! Well-done!

1:18 — Great audio illustration.

In 31TET, the harmonic seventh and major third (the two tendency tones here) are both extremely accurate to Just: about one cent off. The perfect fifth is also more accurate than 19TET’s.

31’s harmonic-seventh chord therefore sounds *extremely stable* ! It’s works great for Blues, where dominant (and other) seventh chords are “the norm, ” rather than a dissonance that demands resolution, as it is in Common-Practice harmony.

The closest chords 12 and 19 have to harmonic-seventh chords are much less stable and therefore beg resolution.

[UtterlyMuseless]

The cadence at 4:48 feels a little magical, a little out of the blue, like an unexpected gift. I'm in love.
Anyway, I'm going through this playlist for the second or third time now and I'm still picking up new things. Thank you!

[Xotla]

3:42 and 3:48... hell yeah! This series is great, thanks for making it

[TehEpicAsian]

Say, what plugin do you use for the piano? I want to make microtonal stuff without crappy synth samples.

[LeafGreen]

idk with piano sounds this just sounds like an old out of tune piano to me, probably just because im so used to 12 tet. but i feel like maybe its more applicable to more legato type instruments and synths? you could like slowly slide from a dominant to the h7(#3) into the tonic? id be interested in hearing how that sounds. then the 12 tone association my brain tries to tie to the piano sounds to wouldnt be as prevalent

[lunagardvonbingen]

It just dawned on me that using the standard sharp and flat notations doesn't really work, since it is a huge asset to be able to have consistencies in key signatures. For example in 12TET, C sharp and D flat are the same note, while confusing at first to beginner musicians, it makes sense and is handy at times to have that flexibility. Perhaps in 19TET it would be beneficial to utilize double sharps and double flats for this, but in some cases you might even want to see triple sharps and triple flats. Sheesh.

[Mintsoda_]

Can the theory of 19-TET be applied to 31-TET? (31 is not a multiple of 19, but both are PRIME-TETs, and perfect fifths are narrower than 12-TET.)

[oh]

Is there any physical keyboard which has 19 keys in an octave? (of course the width of an octave is same as a conventional one)