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As everyone else said, perfect pitch in our world is just an incredible ability to connect the sound of a note to its name. Where investiture may come in is the ability to do it without having to train for it. Then it's merely a matter of reproducing said pitch, which investiture could help fine-tune to a greater degree than the normal human voice and ear are capable of. The person decides which pitch they want to sing, and the investiture guides their voice to that exact frequency. They think "A" and are able to sing at exactly 440 Hz. Without spoiling anything, if this is the case, then the scene you're referencing is the person attempting to recreate a pitch without that extra guidance. If that person has done enough ear training, they should be able to tell that they're going out of tune, since no human voice is going to be perfectly in tune at all times without magical help.

Rhythm of anxiety is for sure just a bunch of sixteenth notes

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I got edgedancer

I think we have enough of a lesser antagonist with the war with the parshendi and all the drama in the war camps that we could make a season each work. Ordinary people won’t necessarily need to know about the voidbringers to be invested in the assassination and revenge and all that. There’s only so much you can cut and still have everything make sense. I also have some soundtrack ideas but I’m still brainstorming those

I’m a music major looking at taking a stab at it

I think it would be awfully poetic for a combined shard like Harmony to be two tones at the same time, in harmony. Right now though I think it’s more likely to be an average of the two frequencies, meeting in the middle and singing in unison if that makes sense. But I’m not entirely sure on that one. As for the pure tone of Adonalsium, the theory that has both tones at once would make more sense. When you combine them all you end up with this big chord all playing at once, each note distinct but working together for one sound.

I did see one other post discussing the intervals of the pure tones and their relations with one another. I would absolutely love to hear the pure tones and rhythms

I am a music major and while I would not consider myself an expert by any means, I have been thinking about this a lot. I finally finished reading the book, and I’ve spent the past four days trying to logic my way through the clues the books give us. If it weren’t for the fact that they used these tones for actual music, my western music brain wants to assign honor as the root of a chord, give Cultivation the octave or fifth, and really emphasize Odium’s otherworldliness with a tritone or similar dissonant interval. That wouldn’t be super useful for trying to compose complex melodies, though, and it relies on a lot of Earth history (the tritone being the devil’s interval, and all that) so I’m trying to figure out what else would work. I think, at least in more recent Rosharan music, overtones do play a huge role. This is especially true in any country that places an emphasis on safehands. Light eyed women play pipes and flutes, but with a safe hand covered they are limited to any notes that can be played with the right hand. There’s a medieval flute here on Earth that I’ve been trying to learn to play that extends its range through the use of overtones and the harmonic series. It’s called a tabor pipe and it only has three holes so it can be played with one hand (other hand traditionally plays a drum). It’s the concept behind a trumpet in the shape of a recorder. So far it seems like the best option for a woman to play a flute while still being modest. That combined with the prevalence of overtone singing that Elegy mentioned suggests that we can at least count on the fifth and most likely the third to sound consonant. With that in mind, I think Odium’s tone is actually lower than Honor’s, since Navani at one point sings Honor’s tone and has to modulate down to snap into harmony with Odium’s tone. Earlier in the book it’s described as both tones moving towards each other so I think it’s reasonable to assume Odium’s tone is lower than Honor’s, which means Honor wouldn’t necessarily be the root of the chord. But then the note to control stormlight is the first note of the ancient scale and the voidlight tone is the last so I might be over analyzing a bit here. one thing I want to look more into is traditional Georgian music. It uses a “quintave” instead of an octave, and the book specifically uses that word instead of “pentatonic scale,” which is what I previously assumed would be in use based on the prevalence of 5s and 10s in the books. If it really is a quintave and not a pentatonic scale, that gives us a point of reference for which tuning system is being used and which notes harmonize within that system. and now this is getting really long so I’ll stop rambling and end it here

I have a really hard time choosing a favorite but I think it's a tie between Syl, Wyndle, and Lift. I do not, in fact, have chickens, although I wish i did. My last name is henman, which splits very neatly into hen and man, or chicken and person. It has become my go-to username plus it's a good way to teach people to pronounce and spell my name.

Stormlight is definitely my favorite. Way of Kings was my first introduction to the cosmere, although Steelheart was the first Brandon Sanderson book I read. I'm actually rereading through stormlight right now, just finished Way of Kings and started Words of Radiance.

Hi, I'm Emily. I've been a cosmere fan for a few years but I'm new to 17th shard.