On Jul 12, 12:11=A0am, LJS <ljsche...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jul 11, 12:58 pm, Melodious Thunk <thunk.melodi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> > Interesting layman-type article on music and geometry:
>
> > =A0 =A0http://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 =A0already 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.
He did, but the difficulty with what Pytharous did, is the same
difficulty people run into today with music. And is a lot of the
reason
that digital computers, lasers, CD, and DVD were even invented.
It had a lot to do percussion and sparks, but was somewhat
peripheral to music.
>
> 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
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