Citation Needed - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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The seven notes of the scale equated to the seven movable bodies in the heavens. The numerological symbolism of the time described the number eight as the “rebirth” number, probably because it started a new octave or, in Semitic cultures, a new seven-day week.
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