Music And Music: The Importance Of Music

Since I was young, music have always played a major part in my life and to this day it still do. I was always involved in music one way or the other, whether it was playing with my parent’s CDs and tapes as a child, taking chorus classes in middle school, or becoming a professional DJ at the start of high school; music was and forever will be one of the major driving force of my life. I consider music an undying art, that requires a different way of thinking and levels of creativity.. Similar to looking for various possible solutions for a math problem. German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, the man who co-discovered calculous, once said “Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”

For example, a quarter note with a dot after it would be held

for ⅜ of a measure, since.” (Natasha Glydon) This analogy goes back to the measurement of

time or “time signature”. Knowing this allows the musician to recognize various patterns in an

instrumental or vocal piece. Mathematics and music have always been brought together in

various ways.

Mathematicians in ancient times were always fascinated of the similarities between music

and mathematics. They described music as a science and as an essential key to understanding

mathematics. For example, “In the case of European music, from the eleventh century, the

diagrams used in music are similar to mathematical graphs of discrete functions in two

dimensional Cartesian coordinates. The x-axis represents time, while the y-axis represents pitch.”

Saloni Shah verbally expressed. “The Cartesian graph, used to represent music, was used by

music theorists before they were introduced into geometry. In fact, many musical scores of

twentieth century musicians have many forms that are similar to mathematical diagrams.” In

modern times, numbers are used to understand music