What is Music?
It’s really math – Philosophers have been biting their nails over this question for hundreds of years. Musicians and mathematicians don’t seem to have much in common, but scholars have suspected for centuries that the mysterious force that shapes the melodies that catch the ear is nothing other than math?geometry, to be precise. The Greek mathematician Pythagoras described pleasing musical intervals with simple mathematical ratios more than 2,600 years ago and this science evolved further during the Middle Ages when deep thinkers used those same ratios to model the “music of the spheres”?what many at that time believed to be the harmonious movements of the sun, moon and planets.read more