Re: [Harp-L] history of music theory

[Oliver Schoenborn <oliver.schoenborn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Pierre for sharing many neat ideas. And your last paragraph,

> What is interesting is that the fundementals of music today are almost
> universal around the world although there are cultural differences (ex:
> Indian music, japanese, ...). How did music traditions converge? Languages
> did not converge. What did isolated cultures come up with?
>
> How is music on planet X of the milky way?
raises some really neat questions.


> An interesting question. You must be an engineer or a computer scientist to
> want to know these things.  I had the same questions when I got started. I
> am no expert but many of these things were figured out hundred of centuries
> ago. The answer to most things is because it worked, although other systems
> would have worked too. A lot of it is based on physics, the rest was choice
> or chance; things that did not work were dropped. An evolution basically. I
> doubt there is a record of early music development as music must be 30,000+
> years old.[... many neat ideas clipped for brevity...]
Cheers,
Oliver