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Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study finds
The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony, new research shows. The findings challenge centuries of Western music theory and encourage greater experimentation with instruments from different cultures.
Were the ancient Greeks onto something when Pythagoras mused about the music of the spheres — a flawed, if romantic concept suggesting the mathematical relationships between celestial bodies could likewise emanate harmonious sounds not unlike violin strings? A team of nuclear physicists at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility explores the possibilities, Salon reports: https://flip.it/YEjtjA #Science#Music#Space#Pythagoras
Picture: tetraktys figures on Neolithic pottery, Los Millares, Andalucia
Yod, the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, has the numeric value of 10. It is the letter that symbolises God and the first letter in the Tetragrammaton (YHWH), often inscribed within an upward-pointing equilateral triangle with the yod at the apex, a symbol derived, via the kabbalists, from the Pythagorean tetraktys, a triangular figure consisting of ten points. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/11/375