THE EFFECT OF MEASUREMENT IN MUSIC

Does it exist any connection between mathematics and music?, and if so, how does it affect us?

As surreal as it turns out, the relationship exists. To understand it, we have to go back to ancient Greece, specifically Pythagoras. He was who discovered the importance of numbers in music and the relationship between this discipline and mathematics. The word mathematics comes from the Greek word μάθημα, which means "knowledge". Pythagoras and his followers divided this science into four areas: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and MUSIC. For this reason, we could affirm that the Pythagorean philosophers were the ones who laid the foundations of our current music.

Nowadays, mathematics has to do even more with acoustics than with composition and the use of mathematics in composition is historically limited to the simplest operations of measuring and counting. As a result of that, we could affirm that we feel emotions and feelings through songs because of their mathematical patterns (the harmony, sound and musical shape) and also, due to their elements (the rhythm, time and musical meter)

According to a survey, which had more than 50 classic and current songs, that was carried out by Rolling Stone, people around the world exposed that these were the three most emotional songs that they have ever listen to.

1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

2.  John Lennon - Imagine 

3. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

FUN FACT!

Pythagoras discovered that the octave had a mathematical ratio of 2/1.