Invented Music?

[Don't thread on my tentacles, Earthling!]

Le 25 janv. 08 ? 23:52, Larry Pham a ?crit :

>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_geometry
>
>   The discovery of the relationship of geometry and mathematics to  
> music within the Classical Period is attributed to Pythagoras, who  
> found that a string stopped halfway along its length produced an  
> octave, while a ratio of 3/2 produced a fifth interval and 4/3  
> produced a fourth. Pythagoreans believed that this gave music  
> powers of healing, as it could "harmonize" the out-of-balance body,  
> and this belief has been revived in modern times[1].

Save it's a little bit more complicated than this and the  
mathematical scale just doesn't work. Putting in equations organ  
pipes dimensions (still not done in a general and elegant way, it  
just doesn't work, latest attempt I knew of was from a retired  
engineer from the EPFZ who is on it for 20 years?) or the unlinearity  
of a well tuned piano are a bit outside of pythagoras?

Not to say, maths applied to make Bach copycats do ugly things.

BTW, aren't a bit now beyond scales and harmony? ;)

Let's keep some mysteries in the world, it brings poetry out of it.

Denis H]
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