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Re: Math and music
Posted:
Oct 14, 2004 4:32 PM
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Jon Slaughter wrote:
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> This is a quite from <a href="http://geodyne.com/schillinger/index.html#top:">http://geodyne.com/schillinger/index.html#top:</a>
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> "Music has remained in the dark, without geometric form, because we still
> refer to C as 1 instead of zero. Geometry begins with 0, not 1. With C as 0,
> coherent visual form ensues. The twelve notes in our primary selective
> system are used because 12 is the most versatile number; 12 is the smallest
> number with the most divisors."
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> Now, as an "advanced" mathematician, does that make sense to you? If it
> does, then your not as advanced as you think.
The arrogance of "our"; which of the worlds many and diverse musical
cultures does that refer to?
0 would seem to be the smallest (non-negative) number with the most
divisors--assuming that that phrase means anything.
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