Other experiments explored harmony perception with Western and non-Western musical instruments, including the bonang. Instinctive appreciation of new kinds of harmony The researchers found that the ...

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In defence of Pythagoras, that he showed us music was based on harmonic intervals was a very impressive analysis with the primitive tools at his disposal. What is more, some of nature’s most wonderful ...

According to the Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, ‘consonance’ – a pleasant-sounding combination of notes – is produced by special relationships between simple numbers such as 3 and 4. More ...