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In music, there are notes. A whole note is worth 4 beats, a half note is worth 2 beats, a quarter note is worth 1 beat, etc. Let's say a song is in a 4-beat measure. You could put one whole note, 2 half notes, or 4 quarter notes. Or you could even do 1 half note and 2 quarter notes, thus math.
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∙ 11y agoMusic and math are very similar. Music often times relies completely on numbers. For example in a 4/4 measure, there are four quarter notes, eight eighth notes, two half notes, etc., or any combination. (so on your homework, just but that both can be divided split into different parts)
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To add to, and correct,that, music consists of patterns of tones of various frequencies ("pitches"), and the timbre of individual instruments comes from combinations of the primary note-frequencies and their harmonics; functions of the physical natures of the instruments. Analysing these sounds is extremely mathematical, requiring a deep understanding of logarithms, series and trigonometry first. I would refer you to the work of Helmholtz!
By the way those binary-fraction noteshave proper names - and the list above contains an misunderstanding.
A 4/4 bar does NOT have four "quarter notes". It has four beats from a combination of notes and a single stressed beginning note or with the 2nd and 4th note stressed - syncopated - as in most jazz, pop and Rock Music.
A four-beat bar therefore may contain any, but only one,of the following; or a combination of them that adds to 4 beats, thus:
One four-beat note (a Semibreve: a Breve therefore lasts for 8 beats),
Two two-beat notes (Minims)
Four single-beat notes (Crotchets - these are the fundamental notes of one single,whole beat each)
Eight half-beat notes (Quavers)
Sixteen quarter-beat notes (Semiquavers).
Semiquavers can be halved into demi-semiquavers and even quartered into Semi-demi-semiquavers but these are so short that they verge on the limit of practicality or point!
So you could play 1 minim and 2 crotchets in 4/4 time and it would still fill the 4-beat bar correctly. It would go "LA-A, LA, LA": the simple4 crotchets would be "LA, LA, LA, LA" per bar.
I minim and1 crotchet would be 3 beats as in 3/4 (waltz) time.
I would say that Mathematics and Music are not so much similar as that music relies on mathematical rules from simple arithmetic as above, to the complexities of Harmonic Analysis.
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∙ 14y agocause math, you can make pictures and add how much you or whatever has
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∙ 12y agoThey are both school subjects,
I don't think there are many because they are both completely different!
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How is music related to math?
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