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Big Question with a hint of Abstract

         

How does the study of music theory and mathematics help us understand music in a much larger picture?



While a surprise to most of the musicians and common people, there is not much of dissimilarity between music and mathematics. Learning music will not necessarily improve math skills to that of a genius mathematician with an individual, yet it will strengthen certain parts of the brain that are implemented in numerical properties. Some of which include relationships, a different voicing or method of solving a problem, etc. To most, math and music are very irrelevant when it comes to both subjects.



Dating back to ancient Chinese, Mesopotamians and Egyptians, the study on the principle of sound and the mathematics of it, and during the time of Plato, harmony was considered a fundamental branch of physics which is known today as musical acoustics, or just acoustics. In early Chinese and Indian times, theorists show the similar approach towards mathematical laws of harmony and rhythm was fundamental to even that of human well-being, and not just the world.



The use of mathematics to understand music is only a theory. Like math itself, there is only a certain point that is reached where the numbers don’t come out as complete whole, such as pi. Some aspects may not even exist at all when it comes to music. Both are very complementary when it comes to one another, but highly advanced mathematics wouldn’t be found in music of any simplistic or complicated form.