"Music is the harmonization of opposites, the unification of

disparate things, and the conciliation of warring elements... Music is the

basis of agreement among things in nature and of the best government in the

universe. As a rule it assumes the guise of harmony in the universe, of

lawful government in a state, and of a sensible way of life in the home.

It brings together and unites." - The Pythagoreans

Every school student will recognize his name as the originator of

that theorem which offers many cheerful facts about the square on the

hypotenuse. Many European philosophers will call him the father of

philosophy. Many scientists will call him the father of science. To

musicians, nonetheless, Pythagoras is the father of music. According to

Johnston, it was a much told story that one day the young Pythagoras was

passing a blacksmith's shop and his ear was caught by the regular intervals

of sounds from the anvil. When he discovered that the hammers were of

different weights, it occured to him that the intervals might be related to

those weights. Pythagoras was correct. Pythagorean philosophy maintain

recordable. From the Pythagorean scale and simple mathematical

The intrinsic discovery made by Pythagoras was the potential order to

instructed their creativity." (Ferrara, 1991). Without Pythagorean musical

According to Rowell, Pythagoras began his experiments demonstrating

discovered the initial length generated the strings primary tone, while

aesthetics, between the natural world and the human soul. Perhaps the same

calculations, different scales or modes were developed. "The Dorian,

structured music. From this, diverse educational schemes were created upon

different lengths were hammered, they emitted different pitches, and when

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