lec 6- History of Acoustics Flashcards
What does “The Harmonic Lyre” by Stephen Ian Mclntosh tell us?
That myths connected to early thinking about the world and science
who coined the term Harmony of the spheres?
pythagoras
how does math and music relate?
pythagoras found out that the math behind spacing of strings caused different harmonies
who did the Greeks learn music from?
the egyptians
what did the Greeks believe about music?
that it is connected to the stars, planets, myths and the natural world
what comes out when strings are divided into halves?
harmonics
how did Pythagoras learn about harmonics?
from the banging of metal and the harmonics it produced
who is said to be the father of math and music?
Pythagoras
who discovered that the octave had a 2:1 ratio?
Pythagoras
what is cymatics?
patterns of sound in liquids
