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Posted by gabe on 6/27/2005, 6:32 pm, in reply to "Re: TRI-TONE" With regards to your first proposed scenario, we need not perceive this as the key of C major at all, for the key of C major involves the notes A and B as well. Now, although there is no tritone present in the sequence C-D-E-F-G-F-E-D-C, the tritone would have to be inferred if we are to conceptualize this sequence in terms of the key of C major. If, however, you are simply arguing that the notes C, D,E,F, and G comprise a tonality of its own, then I do not disagree (although the tritone is certainly produced in the overtones of any of these noted played by itself or with one another). My point was simply that the traditional notion of key in the equal-tempered system is centered around the tritone.
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