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Mindscape 332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music [version with fixed audio]
Sean Carroll·Oct 21, 2025
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The major scale and western musical traditions are culture-dependent and conventional rather than universal.
“around 1900 it became clear that the way western composers had organized their music was profoundly culture dependent and in some ways arbitrary.”
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