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Monochord and musical Pythagorean instruments Pythagoras (about 570 - 497 BC) to develop his theories of universal harmony linked to the numbers built also several musical instruments including the monochord useful to demonstrate the physics laws based on the music with a sound box on which was stretched a rope where the length and tension were adjustable by means of a jumper and the appropriate weights which occur to regular and verify with mathematical formulas the relations between sounds. Often the philosopher, mystic and scientist of Samos is shown while playing various instruments (flutes and multichords tables) as a first linked to the number of musical theory, which has the function of combining metaphysics and discordant elements of opposite nature in a cosmic vision which tends to the One or "Monad" unitary principle of all the reality, that the Pythagoreans later identified in an almost a religious model as of an universal mathematical harmony. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 22, 2010 
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 The Pythagorean music and Severino Boethius The Pythagoreans beyond to identify the inverse relationship between length of the vibrating string and height of a musical note managed through the studies of the philosopher and mathematician Archytas of Taranto (V century BC) to establish the relationship with the frequency of vibrations that generated the sounds, and everything was calculated by idealizing the number with formulas that were to represent the harmony of the cosmos and the movement of the stars. What may be represented as the musical symbolism Neopythagoreans (eg Nicomachus of Jerash) was taken by the writer and philosopher Severinus Boethius (Rome 480 - Pavia 524?) in the work "Of the music doctrine" in which the knowledge of the relationship between sounds is more important than the melody. Boethius distinguishes between worldly music, understood as a harmony of the cosmos, and then that human and instrumental in the numerical sense which excludes the music produced by the voice. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 15, 2010 n°: 1396 Knowability of the being and Platonic language The derivation of the language used by men to understand is analyzed with a large number of etymologies and almost musical derivations of letters and syllables from Plato (427-347 BC whose real name is Aristocles son of Aristones and Perictione) in a dialogue between Socrates, Hermogenes and "Cratylus" focused on the correctness of names and their correspondence to objects and to their intimate nature. Socrates demonstrates with the dialectic technique that the names do not correspond to the thing itself, but only with the image of them and then only through the ideas is possible to come to the knowledge of being without uncertainties and contradictions of sorts, considering that the names are subject to vary continuously in the various cultures in accordance with the eternal flow of Heraclitus. In fact the philosopher uses the language like music and many ironic etymologies to demonstrate that only the idea of beautiful, good, ..of Well never change. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Aug 17, 2010 n°: 1345 Music and Platonic education Starting from the idea of justice as a precondition for the establishment of a new ideal city, Plato (427-347 BC) in the dialogue "The state or the justice" between Socrates, Cephalus, Glaucon, Thrasymachus.. describes that we should educate young people with music for the soul and gymnastics for the body so that the developments in the individual virtue is seen as a national example for the entire civilization that would be equivalent in its balanced functioning as a kind of man in great. This prototype of the ideal state that can not be equaled by any state land, but at the same time is more real, governments increasingly operate the well also in exchange of the bad since they were trained since children to pursue justice through that kind of "music" deprived from falsehood and exaggerations that are often present in this art so that it can really lead to a positive concept of Good. [Automatic translation global English] e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jul 13, 2010 n°: 1321 Music, Pythagoras and the Universe Starting from the study of music and relationships derived from the eighth connection length of a vibrating string Pythagoras and the disciples of his school in Crotone (founded about in 531 BC) made a numerical rule of universal harmony which the planets were arranged around a central fire in a heliocentric theory in a precise mathematical relationship probably derived from the music. Many of the knowledge of the Pythagoreans were lost following the destruction of their home-school by the so-called "democratic" [ ... ] who burned alive almost all the adherents except for two (mentioned in Plato's dialogues with their disciples), but is possible guess that the rule for calculating the distance in the disposition of the ten planets around the central Sun were based on the power of number three ritual, to note that even in the current empirical law of Titius-Bode the planetary distances is calculated using a mathematical formula. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jun 18, 2010 n°: 1300 A fluted Platonic discourse As part of what can be considered as a kind of continuing joking controversy with the rhetoricians, Plato (427 - 347 BC) shows in a dialogue between Socrates and Menexenus as a discourse of fluting type stately and memorial penetrate in the ears like music and leave the listener a feeling of reverence for more than three days, almost we were in another world such is the ability of speakers to be able to touch the deepest chords of the human soul (deceiving the public by following the same proven techniques). However one should not even "do the whole a bundle" and reduce the rhetoric art adapted to charlatans, in fact the criticism is only to that logos that does not use of the reasoning or the dialectical cleverly playing on the emotions and feelings of the listener, and indeed can praise a lot of rhetoric that simply bring out the idea of Well thanks to a true exposure. [automatic translation global English] e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 17, 2010 n°: 1248 The platonic music Considering in the first place that for Aristocles (427 - 347 B.C.) the music as other arts are alone copies of second or third hand of the idea (and this can be easy tried from who are about to translate in notes a musical song heard in dream), therefore practically are falsifications as it happens in pictures that they reproduce in little one static nature without being able to give back to the spectator the true life; it must keep in mind that after Pythagoreans frequentation, Plato determined to render the study of music obligatory like aid to the mathematics. An example of as the philosopher uses musical techniques is obtained from the choice of some words (Gorgon in order to define the rhetor Gorgias, like a species of wild animal from the thousands heads to bridle in any manner).. and in knowing to distinguish dissonant ideal notes in the speeches like discernment criterion, as it would make a musician with the notes of a song [automatic translation global English]. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 02, 2010 n°: 1212 Music Therapy for the tinnitus A study in a group of individuals who suffer from chronic ringing in the ears, with no other major disorders of hearing, was able to attenuate the noise by listening for a period of twelve hours per week to their favorite music changed so to remove the frequencies that cause annoying hum (the audit was conducted by comparison with other groups that had been made without the original music movement, or using normal therapy), it seems that this type of music therapy has an effect on the area of the brain responsible of the tinnitus. Others researches has shown that the volume of the headphones of portable devices is on average too high and that in the long run could cause damage to hearing, but this can also depend on the type of sound and if the listening is prolonged, however accustomed to listen at low volumes is possible still appreciate the music. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 30, 2009 n°: 1159 Hearing influenced by tactile sensations The words listening is influenced by several factors as is the case for hearing impaired individuals that in addition to the signs language seek to understand the meaning of sentences even by facial expressions or other indications on the body, and now researchers have found that light puffs of air on your skin can not be heard normally can affect on how a person interprets the words and this might be useful to develop pneumatic devices that help the understanding of deaf people for example (the studies are still in their early stages, but this phenomenon seems to occur spontaneously). Other studies have shown that the ear is often exposed to auditory stimulation potentially dangerous sometimes undervalued and how it should try to lower the average noise level that can also affect the psychological well-being of the individual. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 30, 2009 n°: 1135 In the belly of mother babies imitate the language Depending on the nuances of the language spoken by the family when the kids are still in the womb tend to imitate the sounds that they received at birth, and then the tears will be slightly different depending on the language of the country of origin, perhaps to look at this way to get more protection and care by the mother. Babies would be able to store sounds since the last three months of pregnancy and some have been demonstrated in many studies the usefulness of listening to classical or ambient music to contribute to the intellectual and musical skill as adults, but only from the twelfth weeks of age the babies would really be able to reproduce the vocal sounds trying to imitate those of adults, however the first attempts of learning must be just to identify precisely the various nuances of crying as first base of language. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 07, 2009 n°: 1116 Music * The author doesn't assume some kind of responsibility for the bad use of the articles councils (all rights are reserved) |
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