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jsinjin - Posted - 07/19/2024: 06:39:15
I have a background in physical chemistry and applied math and I have always wondered how music was put together from a physics perspective. I never studied music in any capacity besides a single summer doing piano practice before I was a teen. Getting a banjo had made me really want to learn and understand the “why” of why music scales, chords, progressions etc are put together.
In case there are others like me (and there are always engineers on forums)
This is a great article:
pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article-...=fulltext
It is behind a paywall but you can go to a university library and download it. It’s written for a general physics student at the undergrad level. I found reading it last night that I really began to associate the actual reason that fret distances are set and why groups of individual notes make up a chord which wasn’t explained in most of the things I was reading as a beginning music student.
There are also several references in it that discuss how stringed instruments work and their harmonics and the way they are tuned and make sounds. It’s a great set of ways to explain the parts that were frustrating me initially.
Edited by - Bill Rogers on 07/19/2024 14:13:22
RB3 - Posted - 08/08/2024: 07:44:02
The square root of two is usually associated with geometry. A musician friend who was also a math professor at a major urban university did some historical research that led him to believe that it may have first been associated with music.
