Perfect harmony? It's a matter of taste

• Autores: Josh McDermott
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3083, 2016, pág. 15
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There's no such thing as a nasty-sounding chord: it all depends on what they're used to. The ancient Greeks discovered that musical harmony seems to be rooted in mathematics, and today they know that many cultures worldwide use mathematically neat chords. But Josh McDermott at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his team have evidence that a preference for mathematically simple harmonies is not innate