Musical theories of Pythagoras, 1492. Men playing musical instruments and making sounds. At top left, an anvil is struck with hammers. Top right: Pythagoras playing the musical scale on bells and on water-glasses. He has made a sort of xylophone using glasses filled with ever smaller amounts of water. Bottom left: Pythagoras' discovery of the dependence of the musical intervals on certain arithemtical ratios of lengths of strings at the same tension. Bottom right: Pythagoras and Philolaus experimenting with musical pipes. Illustration from "Theorica musicae" (Theory of music) by Fran
Musical theories of Pythagoras, 1492. Men playing musical instruments and making sounds. At top left, an anvil is struck with hammers. Top right: Pythagoras playing the musical scale on bells and on water-glasses. He has made a sort of xylophone using glasses filled with ever smaller amounts of water. Bottom left: Pythagoras' discovery of the dependence of the musical intervals on certain arithemtical ratios of lengths of strings at the same tension. Bottom right: Pythagoras and Philolaus experimenting with musical pipes. Illustration from "Theorica musicae" (Theory of music) by Franchino Gaffurio.
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