07:700:131 Midterm: Unit 4 Discussion Forum
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Was the first person to study music in a scientific manner. He recognized that not all pitches sound the same and ended up using a monochord to help him measure the changes in pitch by dividing the string into ratios. An interval is the distance between 2 notes. The harmonia is the idea that ratios can be applied to explain the universe. This is relevant today, because it helps us relate the length of a vibrating body to the pitch it makes and the idea that changing the ratio can help identify which pitch is being played. Church modes and relationship of church modes to major and minor scales. Church modes can also be seen as scales used by the church in the early. It first started out with 8 different modes, but by the time it was the renaissance, it faded into 2 modes.
