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This blog documents the development of JIMS iGetIt! Music System (JIMS). JIMS' goal is to help you Understand Music in 24 Hours™, if you are (a) a non-musician (b) who wants to learn how to write your own rock songs. Requiring no instrument other than your own computer, and without using traditional notation, JIMS is being designed to deliver a deep understanding of tonal structure...in just 24 hours.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Myhill's Property and Interval Names

The characteristic of having two versions of each simple interval is known in diatonic set theory as Myhill's property, and it is the source of many other musically-significant characteristics.

It seems to me that this property is more-easily exposed and explained if the two versions of each simple interval are named consistently, e.g., major and minor, rather than calling some perfect, some augmented, and some diminished.

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