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“16 notes: This tuning is best thought of as a combination of four intertwined diminished seventh chords. Since 12-note tuning can be regarded as a combination of three diminished seventh chords, it is plain that the two tunings have elements in common. The most obvious difference in the way the two tunings sound and work is that triads in 16-note tuning, although recognizable, are too discordant to serve as the final harmony in cadences. Keys can still be established by successions of altered subdominant and dominant harmonies, however, and the Etude is based mainly upon this property. The fundamental consonant harmony employed is a minor triad with an added minor seventh.“ -Easley Blackwood This is a beautiful piece by Easley Blackwood I didn’t see on YouTube. I have had requests to hear 16-tone music from people after they ask “why 16? or what does 16 tone sound like?“. This doesn’t display alot of harmonic properties or progressions, alternative temperaments or scales, b
