The Harmonic Series of Music

Any note I strike will contain its own series of overtones. The lower the note I strike, the more abundantly audible this harmonic series. These intervals form the bedrock of tonal music all over the world. Schoenberg admitted that the octave, the perfect fifth, the perfect fourth, and the third were the most easily understood and least dissonant intervals. But in his 12-tone system he emancipated the dissonance by allowing more dissonant intervals like major and minor seconds, major and minor sevenths, Major and minor sixths to become equally important as those of the octave,. This radical equality of all intervals is one of the reasons for that jumpy stereotypical sound of