Pythagorean Philosophy And Its Influence On Musical Instrume
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"Music is the harmonization of opposites, the unification
of disparate things, and the conciliation of warring elements...
Music is the basis of agreement among things in nature and of the
best government in the universe. As a rule it assumes the guise
of harmony in the universe, of lawful governm ....
Middle of paper
.... different weights, it occured to him that the
intervals might be related to those weights. Pythagoras was
correct. Pythagorean philosophy maintained that all things are
numbers. Based on the belief that numbers were the building
blocks of everything, Pythagoras began linking numbers and music.
Revolutionizing music, Pythagoras' findings generated theorems
and standards for musical scales, relationships, instruments, and
creative formation. Musical scales became defined, and
taught. I ....
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