<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> this is true for chromatic transposition, where pitch relationships are preserved and it may result in tones that are no longer in the original key. there&#39;s also diatonic transposition, where notes are shifted up or down within the same key, so the exact pitch relationships are not preserved, e.g. a minor 3rd could become a major 3rd after a diatonic transposition.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span><br />12-tone equal temperament is just floating point numbers where the mantissa ranges over exactly 12 values; transposition is floating point multiplication</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> kinda wish I did</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@estelle" class="u-url mention">@<span>estelle</span></a></span> aw ;;</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> i told this to the instructor and she got visibly upset</p><p>same instructor got upset when i wrote too much about hildegard von bingen in an exam and accused me of cheating on the exam</p><p>(i passed the course, but lost pretty much all passion for it from that point onward)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> log scale is the default, so everyone just talks about it as addition</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> O_o I wish I never remembered this even existed 😂</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Some people get temperamental on this subject.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> Something more you’re willing to share?</p>