Chapter One
What’s in a Note?
First, sound and all of it’s precepts, patterns, correlations, movements, and stories exist within the entire universe in one single pitch.
The wonder of Tonic, by the acoustical properties of our ears’ and the Harmonic Series, and the innate relationships resonating simultaneously there within, has endowed us with the miracle of our existence in ability to communicate musically.
Tonic, in a word can be defined as the “Fundamental”; the foundation of our experience of pitch found within the first ratio of the Harmonic Series.
The ratios that follow within the Harmonic Series serve as a cosmic map of the harmonious nature innate to our existence, as they define a natural order within the relationships of these mathematic acoustical precepts. It is the relationship of the extended ratios within the Harmonic Series to the Fundamental Pitch (1:1, the actual tone that we hear), that resonate the natural laws of acoustics and dictate the preordained choreography of Tonal expectation; our natural aural, musical existence.
It is by means of this relationship that musical artifacts are created, composed, and experienced through our songs, dances, stories, and performance.
~ Excerpt from personal “Music Book” manuscript by JC Heisler