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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 ....
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....re based on Pythagorean
philosophy. Thus, Pythagoras' relationship between numbers and
music had a profound influence on future musical education,
instrumentation, and composition.
The intrinsic discovery made by Pythagoras was the potential
order to the chaos of music. Pythagoras began subdividing
different intervals and pitches into distinct notes.
Mathematically he divided intervals into wholes, thirds, and
halves. "Four distinct musical ratios were discovered: the tone,
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