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Pythagorean Philosophy and its influence on Musical
Instrumentation and Composition
Pythagorean Philosophy and its influence on Musical Instrumentation and
Composition
by Michael Anderson Philosophy 101
"Music is the harmonization of opposites, the unification of
disparate things, and ....
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.... scales, relationships, instruments, and creative
formation. Musical scales became defined, and taught. Instrument makers
began a precision approach to device construction. Composers developed new
attitudes of composition that encompassed a foundation of numeric value in
addition to melody. All three approaches were 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 ch ....
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