{"id":209679,"date":"2024-03-02T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/pythagoras-was-wrong-about-the-maths-behind-pleasant-music\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:21","slug":"pythagoras-was-wrong-about-the-maths-behind-pleasant-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/pythagoras-was-wrong-about-the-maths-behind-pleasant-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Pythagoras was wrong about the maths behind pleasant music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pythagoras has influenced Western music for millennia<\/p>\n

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An ancient Greek belief about the most pleasing combinations of musical notes \u2013 often attributed to the philosopher Pythagoras \u2013 doesn\u2019t actually reflect the way people around the world appreciate harmony, researchers have found. Instead, Pythagoras\u2019s mathematical arguments may merely have been taken as fact and used to assert the superiority of Western culture.<\/p>\n

According to legend, Pythagoras found that the ringing sounds of a blacksmith\u2019s hammers sounded most pleasant, or\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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