Music Has Its Own Geometry, Researchers Find

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Music Has Its Own Geometry, Researchers Find

Science – The connection between music and mathematics has fascinated scholars for centuries. More than 200 years ago Pythagoras reportedly discovered that pleasing musical intervals could be described using simple ratios.

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Rating: +1 (+1/-0) | 2008-04-19 17:37:36

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Einstein became an accomplished musician at a young age after his mother showed him how math applied to music.

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Rating: +2 (+2/-0) | 2008-04-19 18:34:47

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There used to be a MIDI program where you could plug different values into an equation, and the algorithm would turn out 16 bars of a tune. You could switch between tonal and atonal variations.

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