The Physics Of Dissonance

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Thanks to the Acoustical Society of America for sponsoring this video! Start your career in acoustics today with the ASA career toolkit: https://exploresound.org/acoustics-careers/ Get your very own ‘Harmony/Dissonance‘ t-shirt here: https://store.dftba.com/products/dissonance-tee And check out my friend Aatish’s interactive website here: https://aatishb.com/dissonance/ Further watching: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hqm0dYKUx4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY References used for this video: - Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale by W. Sethares, 2nd Ed. 2004 - Tonal Consonance and Critical Bandwidth by R. Plomp & W. Levelt, 1965 - Auditory Patterns by H. Fletcher, 1940 - On The Sensations Of Tone by H. Helmholtz, 1875 - https://www.pharmacy180.com/article/sense-of-hearing-3587/ - https://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio-webdav/handbook/Consonance.html - https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/consemi.html#anchor149613 - ​​http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Music/cirmem - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_acoustics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ MinutePhysics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics - all in a minute! Created by Henry Reich Produced by Joshua Chawner 00:00 - Intro 01:57 - Contents 02:13 - 1) Dissonance of Pure Sine Waves 07:42 - 2) Dissonance of Notes with Overtones 11:28 - 3) Dissonance and Scales 15:29 - 3.5) Is any of this true?? 19:06 - 4) Dissonance in Chords 22:36 - Conclusion 24:15 - Sponsorship from ASA 25:03 - 5) Caveats and T-shirt!