Re: [Harp-L] history of music theory



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





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