In Reply to: I think you're assuming that classical harmony & melody are somehow innately natural posted by k-k-k-kenny on March 11, 2011 at 15:53:37:
Does the Tao Te Ching or Dao De Jing (道德經), whose authorship has been attributed to Laozi, prove that the Aristotelian syllogism is not natural or innate? I don't think so. Pythagoras discovered the mathematical order of the intervals of the "western" musical scale. Pythagoras was a Greek, and not all music is based on the same intervals. But that does not mean that there is not something 'natural' about structure of western music. There are many alternative natural patterns. The naturalness of the pattern of a snowflake does not mean that the structure of DNA is not natural because it is different from the snowflake.
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- RE: I think you're assuming that classical harmony & melody are somehow innately natural - Tadlo 05:52:34 03/12/11 (1)
- Touché - k-k-k-kenny 17:56:09 03/12/11 (0)