How Music Works

CQT Online Talks

Speaker: Dr John Powell
Dr John Powell a physicist and classically trained composer will give a talk on various scientific aspects of music. Drawing on his two amusing but informative books on the subject, How Music Works and Why We Love Music, John will be explaining a broad range of music-related phenomena including;

How music affects your blood chemistry
The medical uses of music
The links between music and intelligence
The Darwinian reasons why music exists
How the musical scale works
How music affects our daily activities (did you know that Barry Manilow songs have been used for crowd control?)

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nice way of explaining octaves without mentioning no beats

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Barry Manilow should scare anyone away - not just teenagers!

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when you said that the 1.5 frequency is 2/3 the cycle time you neglected to mention that they are actually noncommutative!! ONLY Fields Medal Math Professor Alain Connes points out that the 2 to the 19th against 3 to the 12th is noncommutative frequency to the cycle time as 2 to the (1/12th) against 3 to the (1/19)th. A simple way of stating this is that for a root tonic pitch of 1 the 3/2 is C to G (with 2 being the C) while 2/3 is C to F as the undertone that is noncommutative.