Re: Shape of music

On Jul 11, 12:58 pm, Melodious Thunk <thunk.melodi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> Interesting layman-type article on music and geometry:
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>    http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/07/the_shape_of_music.php

Nice article. I may archive it for use in some HS music cl***** or the
principles more simply demonstrated in some lower grades. I thought
that Pythagoras  already knew the rations or at least knew the sound
of the 5th and when he heard these sounds being produced by two
different anvils in the blacksmith shop, that he then got the idea to
weigh (to determine the mass) of the anvils and found that they had
the same ration in music! Just a slightly differently perspective that
has the same (more or less) result.

The relation of music and life seems so basic to me, and I would think
to any musician that has actually thought about it; but it is nice to
see it in print in that other disciplines see it in this manner as
well.

LJS