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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by a SEMI-LOG MOUNTAIN, Editted by an anonymous user who would like to go by the name HALRANDIR, thankyouverymuch - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
+ | In musical notation, the vertical position of the notes denotes <!-- no pun intended, honest --> their pitch, but the pitch is really a logarithm of the note's frequency, so it's a semi-log plot of sorts. The comic thus explores what a notation would look like if the horizontal axis behaved this way instead. Likewise, the vertical axis has been rendered linearly by frequency, with the equally-set lines on a normal musical staff stretching to compensate (the bolder, black lines correlate to the actual lines of the staff; the grey lines between them don't seem to indicate anything with an equivalent in normal musical notation). | ||
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+ | The sheet music pictured is the opening line of "Simple Gifts"; an ordinary copy of the sheet music can be found on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SimpleGifts.png Wikipedia]. | ||
− | + | The title text purpoits to explain how {{w|In the Hall of the Mountain King}}, which progressively increases in tempo and intensity from an initially subtle start into a rapid hustle towards a series of crescendos at the end, was written on {{w|Log–log plot|log-log paper}}, that features nonlinear expansion in ''both'' its axes (in order to render various exponential graphs linear, often for the purposes of ease of understanding). Rather than being a deliberate composition decision, this says that it's only the result of how it was written down, or thenceforth read. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | :[The | + | :[The melody of "Simple Gifts" on a distorted staff.] |
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:When transcribing music, remember to put ''frequency'' on a log scale and ''time'' on a linear one, not the other way around. | :When transcribing music, remember to put ''frequency'' on a log scale and ''time'' on a linear one, not the other way around. | ||