> Furthermore the association of dissonance and consonance to the simplicity of the ratios is not consistent since the idea of dissonance is a social category, not a scientific one.
Again, Plomp & Levelt (1965!). It's not about "simple ratios".
Again, Plomp & Levelt (1965!). It's not about "simple ratios".
You can try this on a guitar. If you pluck a string right in the middle to kill all the even harmonics, major 7ths and minor 9ths don't sound so dissonant as they did when the original string had its 2nd harmonic octave present.