I completely concur with Western music theory being crazy.
I would love to be raised by aliens where music was cleanly lined up with decimals or base negative three integers or ... anything.
There's all the string vibration stuff that leads to 4ths and 5ths though, which as I think fundamental to how we got here, but even little things, like "starting at C" for octaves... it's all weird :)
The "whole whole half" thing is a mess, and then you get semitones and notes that are missing on the keyboard, etc. Fun times!
I would love to be raised by aliens where music was cleanly lined up with decimals or base negative three integers or ... anything.
There's all the string vibration stuff that leads to 4ths and 5ths though, which as I think fundamental to how we got here, but even little things, like "starting at C" for octaves... it's all weird :)
The "whole whole half" thing is a mess, and then you get semitones and notes that are missing on the keyboard, etc. Fun times!