Thanks, that's an explanation I haven't heard that way before, but that makes sense to me.
Follow-up question: how are phase of the scale and the piece of music synchronized? When I think in terms of a wave, I could Fourier-Transform it into sines or in cosines, or any other phase-shifted variant (a * sin(nx + const.))?
Is it always the first note of the piece of music that "anchors" the piece in its scale?
Follow-up question: how are phase of the scale and the piece of music synchronized? When I think in terms of a wave, I could Fourier-Transform it into sines or in cosines, or any other phase-shifted variant (a * sin(nx + const.))?
Is it always the first note of the piece of music that "anchors" the piece in its scale?
Does that question even make sense? :-)