Music meets Fibonacci

Nature of Music is mathematical

Did you ever wonder why our Ancient Brethren defined the nature of music as mathematical?  They defined it as a mathematical arrangement of high, low and mixed sounds done in a proportionate manner.  Did you ever consider that the proportion could be based on the Golden Ratio?

You have been informed it is a demonstrable science.  Further, you were told it allows you to find out those proportions by numbers.

This was an enlightenment approach

If you had been in a Lodge in the 1700s, during the period known as the Enlightenment, you would have heard the Orator holding out on all manner of scientific inquiries.  Euclid saw the laws of nature as “the mathematical thoughts of God.”  He greatly influenced these early Masons and Enlightenment thinkers.  The entire universe was being examined in mathematical terms.  We see this currently in the field of Astrophysics. Music was no exception.  Freemasons were at the forefront of the scientific revolution and when they examined the very nature of music and found it was mathematical. 

You can see this demonstrated

This video is an outstanding example of the marriage between mathematics and musical composition.  Watch as the link between the Fibonacci sequence and music is explored and then used in the composition of a piece of music.

You will understand what inquiring into the nature of concords and discords really means and what our ancient brethren meant when they informed us you can find out the proportions by numbers.

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