Add a Section - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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McClain[1] (1976: p. 163): “Ernst Levy pointed out that the ratio 4:3 produces tones linked by perfect fourths and fifths, that ‘mating’ with 5 produces pure musical thirds, and that the ‘unmusical children’ Socrates predicted from his formula must therefore be those plagued by the notorious commas which make ‘Just tuning’ impractical and motivate the eventual adoption of some form of ‘temperament.’”
[Omitted section of text: Social Analogies Based on Musical Temperament]
The stub subsection Social Analogies Based on Musical Temperament was meant to go above the section Ruler/Noise/Harmony in the Chapter 5 body. Can you help us expand the stub section draft at this link so we can move it back into the chapter body?
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- ↑ Ernest G. McClain, The Myth of Invariance: The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics and Music from the Rg Veda to Plato (Maine: 1976), p. 163.
