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I'm doing a speech in oral communication about the coerrelation between math and music. I have most of the information I need to prove my point but I need sources and opinions on both sides.
So how about it, Do any of you believe their is a direct coerrelation between music and math, the opposite? anything?



Please someone post

and yes I know I can't spell.

There is a relationship between the two... in a way.

I suppose the rhythm maintained by the counting of the beats in a measure is the most obvious correlation, but there's also the fact that each note is written in such a way that it has a specific number of beats, and even it's position on the staff and the use of chords are not just musical notations, they have their basis in math. This is how anyone with a knowlege of music theory can pick up any piece of music and know how to play it pretty much the way the composer intended. In other words, music is mathematical. Of course you also have to follow the expressive notations (allegro, forte, pianissimo, etc) to fully play it the way the composer intended.

Relating it the other way around is a bit more difficult - that is to say that "math is musical" is a difficult concept for me to imagine.



But that's kinda what they did in ET, isn't it? Only they added in the concept that this mathematical music was actually a language in and of itself.

I don't remember e t....
But I know math definatly relates to music because music relates to math, It drives me nuts in both classes, because I'll think of the other. the rhythmic concepts are hard to ignore, subdivisions and such, as in 4 4 time a quarter note is a fourth and a half note is half etc and a dotted quarter is a quarter plus and eigth...
that's how I learned fractions
One fourth plus one fourth is a half note.
One fourth plus one eight is a dotted eighth or 3 eights...

Never thought of it like that - good point.

You really must see ET - it may give you a little more food for thought about the relationships between music, math and language, and another reference point for your research.

Then again...there the whole question of harmonics. The frequency at which each note vibrates. Doesn't that have something to do with math?

that's more physics based...which is mostly math based..therefore it is (at least mostly) math based

Exactly! Kind of... in a round-a-bout way

yep yep, I gave my speech and no one had a clue what I was talking about. Would you guys like to see the speech?

Sure - If you do it as a guide entry, it might even be appropriate for submission to peer review.

true, how do I go about doing that?

On your page, down near the bottom, it'll say "Click here to add a new Guide Entry". If you have it on your computer already, you can just cut and paste it in.

Then if you decide it meets the guidelines for submission to peer review (be sure to check the guidelines - there's lots of stuff that's been submitted that simply doesn't meet those guidelines), it'll need to be done in Guide ML, and there will be a place on your entry to click to submit it.

Kewl, I'll have to do that this weekend. I only have my notes. which are basically the whole paper, it'll take no time to type up.

wow..sounds...big...and interesting...
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What's interesting?
what's big?

the speech...
how was it?
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Boring everyone in my class fell asleep, but i thought it was great

what about the teacher?
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