The article is rather vague about how 432Hz corresponds with nature, I am suspecting this is as the author hints but ignores, pseudo science. In the history of European music we have moderately good record of pitches, and they were all over the place , generally rising with time. Musicians with a keen ear perhaps have had the habit of tuning just a bit higher to sound a bit more brilliant.
I have a number of recordings and the pitch range for the music ranges from a = 343Hz to 480Hz. The lowest is 10-foot pitch from organs in Elizabethan England. We have French chamber pitch from the Baroque era at 396 and 480Hz for organs in the Baroque (choir pitch in Germany and Austria). Modern orchestras using period instruments perform Baroque music now typically at 415Hz. Mozart at perhaps about 420Hz. Beethoven about 430Hz (all though, near the end of his life he is reputed to have had a tuning fork pitched 'a little above a = 435Hz). Woodwind instruments from these periods often came with extra finger hole sections to accommodate different pitch standards. Frederick the Great had pianos that shifted the keyboard so it could be tuned to three different pitches a semitone apart. In New York here, the American Classical Orchestra uses a = 430Hz for Classical period and early Romantic period music. I have a recording on LP of 18th c. harpsichord music from Spain that is pitched at 410Hz. So if you used a = 432 for music earlier than about 1815-1840 it would probably be performed at a pitch higher than the composers probably intended. For a number of years a = 435 was a standard orchestral pitch in the latter 19th century. This also means if a composer associated instrumental timbre with different musical keys, there can be quite a shift in quality of sound if the music is performed with a different pitch standard. Thus how musical scales correlate with colour (visual colour) also has shifted over the centuries. Here is one description of the affective colour, the so called emotional effect of various musical keys, if you move a century forward or backward, the change in pitch completely undoes everything. http://www.wmich.edu/mus-theo/courses/keys.html http://www.wmich.edu/mus-theo/courses/keys.html ------------------------------- ---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote: Heh, I once pissed off a Japanese artist who had created a computer program where one created music by drawing things on the screen. I asked him if he knew there were long standing ideas about how musical scales correlate to colors. His color scheme was all wrong! :-D In music we often pick definitive keys for their "color". Some tunes work well in "flat keys" and others in "sharp" keys. Of course composers were also selecting keys for the range of instruments and vocalists. Plus picking keys that were natural for brass instruments. On 03/02/2014 06:42 AM, awoelflebater@... wrote: http://www.educateinspirechange.org/2014/01/heres-convert-music-432-hz.html http://www.educateinspirechange.org/2014/01/heres-convert-music-432-hz.html
