13/04/2019
MUSIC: Pythagoras and the Twinkling Perfect Fifth
Pythagoras, 2,500BC, the Father of modern day Music,
took the whole length of a string, bridged it at the midpoint,
plucked that half and arrived at the Octave or 1:2.
He examined all the other Ratios of 2:3 and 3:4
and charted the table of Chords and Harmonics.
"All Is Number" is his most famous quote,
which means all is frequency, vibration,
and though we only see the visible and hear the audible,
there are many other dimensions in the invisible and inaudible spectrums.
That is why the ancients scholars believed that size is profane or that it does not matter, but only proportion or ratio or scale is sacred,
(“Logos” originally meant “Proportion”, in ancient Greek, not “Word”
in reference to the biblical quote “In the Beginning was The Word”)
and the ultimate Scale Expansion is the Phi Ratio.
eg: if you divide an octave by a Perfect Fifth, (13/20), you get the golden ratio.
This Perfect Fifth fits in approximately with the Fibonacci Sequence as a 3:2 ratio.
A helpful way to recognize a Perfect Fifth
is to hum the start of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star";
the pitch of the first "twinkle" is the root note and pitch of the second "twinkle" is a perfect fifth above it. That is why we all love it.
Jain 108
