Pythagoras (569-490 BC) established that the octave (the ratio 1:2 of a string's length) was the fundamental musical interval and saw it as a sign that nature itself, including the planetary orbits ...

Ancient musical wisdom was that music was pleasing to the ear because of the 'right' frequencies and vibrations. But researchers from the University of Melbourne's School of Psychological Sciences ...

His 6th-century-BCE experiments of plucking stretched strings of different lengths reportedly led him to stumble upon the harmonious connection between frequencies and their ratios. Certain simple ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras proposed a mathematical argument for what music sounds best to the ear: According to legend, he said listeners preferred music with chords adhering to perfect ...

A lot of experimental music in the last 100 years of Western classical music has been quite hard for listeners because it involves highly abstract structures that are hard to enjoy. In contrast, ...

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Theories that claim music is a universal language have been proposed as far back as the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras. In the famous musical, The Sound Of Music, Maria sings: "When you sing ...

Pythagoras (570-500 BC) was born on the island of Samos in what is now Greece. On the advice of Thales of Miletus, he travelled to Memphis in Egypt where he came into contact with priests renowned for ...