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Mathematics and Music
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Oct 20, 2025
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[old version with bad audio - see update] Mindscape 332 | Dmitri Tymoczko
Sean Carroll·Oct 20, 2025
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Musical consonance is grounded in the physics of how instruments vibrate and produce partials or overtones.
“And essentially, the three over two ratio sounds good because the instruments themselves are vibrating at a fundamental frequency and then at twice that fundamental frequency and then three times that fundamental frequency.”
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