How can math relate to music?

Answer 1

Well...in music there are notes....depending on how the note looks there is a certain 'count' of beats in a song that you have to follow...(Quarter notes, Half Notes, Whole Notes, etc., properly and poetically called semi-quavers, quavers, crotchets, etc respectively, where the Crotchet is the fundamental one-beat note whose sign looks a tadpole.).


Also, for every doubling in sound frequency, the pitch increases an octave. So a string vibrating at 440Hz will produce a middle C sound, and a string vibrating at 880Hz will produce a high C sound.

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This introduces a field of study that becomes extremely mathematical indeed, for every musical sound from an instrument gains its quality from the fundamental frequency (the note's pitch) plus combinations of that frequency's harmonics - and analysing these requires a lot of complextrigonometrical series and other calculations.