Who Invented the I-VI-II-V-I-VI-II-V-I-VI-II-V-I-VI-II-V-I-VI-II-V-I-VI-II-V?

[The Real MC]

Boy is that an ear worm, goes on forever.

[CyberGene]

Must be Gauss, because 1 + 6 = 2 + 5

 

“Another story has it that in primary school after the young Gauss misbehaved, his teacher, J.G. Büttner, gave him a task: add a list of integers in arithmetic progression; as the story is most often told, these were the numbers from 1 to 100. The young Gauss reputedly produced the correct answer within seconds, to the astonishment of his teacher and his assistant Martin Bartels. Gauss's presumed method was to realize that pairwise addition of terms from opposite ends of the list yielded identical intermediate sums: 1 + 100 = 101, 2 + 99 = 101, 3 + 98 = 101, and so on, for a total sum of 50 × 101 = 5050.”

[Stokely]

Nickelback was the first, but not the last.

[KuruPrionz]

Uhhh... your mom? 😇

[Tom Williams]

Doesn't anyone ever do a diatonic progression like I-vi-ii-V any more? 

[David Emm]

He tried to add another II, but I clipped him in the back of the head with a vodka bottle and nipped that crap in the bud.

[drawback]

Thanks for the ear worm. 

[KuruPrionz]

41 minutes ago, Jazz1642606857 said:

"Some sources imply that Pythagoras conceived of the circle of fifths in the sixth century B.C. but there is no proof of this. In the late 1670s Ukrainian composer and theorist Nikolay Diletsky wrote a treatise on composition entitled "Grammatika"... the first circle of fifths appears in the Grammatika and it was used for students as a composition tool."

 

Wikipedia

 

 

The result being that instruments that use the tempered scale (the only way to resolve the circle of fifths, otherwise each iteration is different in pitch than the last), can now play slightly out of tune in all keys. 

[JohnG11]

11 hours ago, KuruPrionz said:

The result being that instruments that use the 12 tone equal tempered scale (the only way to resolve the circle of fifths, otherwise each iteration is different in pitch than the last), can now play slightly out of tune in all keys. 

 

There, FTFY.  ☺️

 

But there are hundreds of other circulating temperaments dividing the Pythagorean comma in non-equal ways that allow all keys to be played.

E.g. Werckmeister, Temperament ordinaire, Neidhardt, Kirnberger, Kellner, Vallotti and Young, to name but a few!  😉

 

See here: https://huygens-fokker.org/scala/

[Mark Schmieder]

I think you got the number wrong. Are you trying to reach Jenny?

[EscapeRocks]

6 minutes ago, Mark Schmieder said:

I think you got the number wrong. Are you trying to reach Jenny?

Winner!

[Docbop]

I still like the original version before they did harm oh I mean reharm. 

 

 

[Mark Schmieder]

I know there are many professions where the motto is "Do no harm," but we as musicians just can't abide by that one!