Emmitt,

That's .06 cents, you must have a sixth sense.

You are correct, I was mistaken, the harmonic series is definately not an aspect. What it is, is a phenomenon of pitch which can be expressed mathematically, but is still not necessary to music. It is simply most often there.

Music, I would say, can be an experience, but not necessarily. If my demo is playing in the forest, and there is no one there to experience it, is it still music? Well, if it's my demo, it may not be, let's say bob young's demo. If there is a band playing in the forest and there's no club owner there, are they still too loud?

In early times, the cavemen didn't start with harmony, they chanted and tried to sound like the birds (and on 8 Miles High, vice versa). They made the caves echo and found that some notes reverberated more than others, and when they couldn't get them to reverberate in tune, they used autotune, the cro-magnons used CroTools. In college, they told us that the earliest of harmonies were probably fifths and fourths, before thirds (they said music was math but they they said five came before three? so much for music professors...down with theory, see my thread on this).

Harmony and its relation to harmonics came later. The greeks figured it out, Ulysses did a study of music, the king gave him a great deal of money to further this study which became known as the Ulysses Grant. This brought about a general agreement with the Greek musician's federation, known as the Ulysses Grant Union General agreement (but I digress).

All the Best,
Mike

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Mike Dunbar Music

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

It's only music.
-niteshift

Mike Dunbar Music