Music Definition and 434 Threads

I want to know about music. It should be something that starts with what music is, how humans started it, why humans are stimulated by it. Further it should give a brief description about idea of solfege, music notation, rhythm and how we develop new songs. The latter part is music theory which...

this is the music from the trailer of the new Cosmos series : love it Have you got any song of this type? Here's the trailer if you've not watched yet:

Here is the question: Here is a link to the question: Quick Proof about a Square Matrix? - Yahoo! Answers I have posted a link there to this topic so the OP can find my response.

This thread is inspired by MarkFL and mathmaniac. I'll start, Best Trance 2011 2012 2013 :) We've been discussing dreaming and music lately so... TRANCE! edit* VG is video game. Thanks MarFL i can embed the video now!

I've had the same CD in my car that I've been listening to for almost a year; a lot of the songs are great, but I'm starting to get sick of some of them. I've started putting some new songs together for a new CD, but I only have this list so far: - All Along the Watchtower - Another Brick...

I still remember a long time ago one of my teachers told me ''Discman(LOL) are forbidden in class , if you are coming to class you should be able to concentrate and music ruins your concentration''.I then proceeded to explain to her that I thought music could actually help me concentrate even...

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After participating in so many discussions about QM and GR... I've got strange hobby. Well, the first experiment. The actress is overplaying, I know, but she is not an actress at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHiMZQwJU9Y Girl is transforming into a vampire and then burns...

Or more precisely from advent of the gramaphone and "talkies" until today. I am geussing it is 4 beats per measure, but why? I am asking with respect to how iambic pentameter could have become predominant back in the day, if poetic meter is ultimately derived from musical time, as that would...

Why music causes emotions in our mind? They are just sound waves interpreted by our brain? But what causes it to trigger emotions? Do scientists have an answer for this yet?

Greetings PFers I've got a Capricorn Electronics Caroling Christmas Bells. http://www.digitalfires.com/bells/ I'm not going to pay $90 for another music cartridge, so I've decided to program in my own songs... yay!... My trouble is that I need a piece of software to convert some simple...

First, here is some context for a series I'm writing. The main setting for tomes 1-11 (I'm writing tome 12 now, which takes place after the 4th generation main character graduates from her music PhD) is an otherworldly city surrounded by a LHC-like particle accelerator whose radius is 2π km, and...

Sometimes when music is playing next door you can only hear the bass. Why? This website likes people to make a guess so here's my shot. Perhaps the bass is on a wavelength that can penetrate walls better. I'm not sure why it is equally as loud as the treble or the other sounds when you're in...

I have heard that music is very mathematical and was wondering if there is a place I could watch lectures on a topic like this? Or maybe a textbook I could read through? Thanks for any help!

We, or most of us, listen to music whilst working out, so how about working? Does soothing, relaxing sounds help facilitate your working environment, or banging of bells? Please post some artists to help me find some new music to listen to, so far I've been listening to Erik Satie (The Best Of)...

I am a musician, I've been playing guitar form 8 years now. And piano and drums as well for under 3. People tell me music is mathematical same with artwork, something i am also very proficient at. Is it purely from the patterns of the notes and timing of the pitches that make it mathematical? Or...

I was wondering what classical composers, modern, and not used math to write compositions, I am aware of a couple of examples, including the 12 tone system. What has anyone else come up with? I have heard, that Bach's compositions are "mathematically perfect" though, I have no idea what that...

The fact that the biggest heroes in America are athletes, music artists, and movie stars is a testament to the idiocy of most Americans. Why are Tim Tebow, Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth, Michael Jackson, and Michael Jordan more famous and held in higher esteem than Sir Alexander Fleming, Edward...

I am interested in starting to research into the acoustics of speech and music. In particular I want to analyze the spectral profile of human voice in hopes of finding relationships between it and music. A possible future direction for this research is to improve synthetic speech to mimic...

I have a moderately sized music collection of 76GB which I would like to access from both ubuntu and windows. What is the best way to do this? My thoughts were... have ubuntu on one partition, windows on a second, and stick shared stuff in a third one. Is there software for both ubuntu and...

Just wondering if anyone else here enjoys producing music? I produce electronic music, using Apple's Logic, some of which can be found here. http://soundcloud.com/prane/everythings-mirrors Also in a prog rock band :)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/26/science-music-idUSL6E8IOE3320120726

If I you like Beethovens music does that mean that you "just dont just don't have the mental capacity to appreciate it yet" EDIT: ok the title was supposed to say "If I you DONT like Beethovens music does that mean that you "just don't have the mental capacity to appreciate it yet" ...

I'm curious as to what all the science lovers on physics forums like to listen to. Feel free to throw in whatever styles or genres you like as well.

I am working on a forced vib project involving a musical instruments I am trying to have the vibration of my classical acoustic guitar increase, however NO ELECTRICITY CAN BE INVOLVED, and also trying to make the vibration of a piece of tightly folded aluminum that is attached to my guitar to...

I made a pan flute that has 1 open end and 1 closed end, so when i blow into it, the fundamentral frequency I put actually generates harmonic freqeuncies of 2f,3f,4f... and this creates distortions? Is this correct? If so, why most musical intruments don't have any distortions and sound nice? Is...

I understand that when constructive interference occurs, music is produced, destructive interference can also happen right? Then it is possible that sometimes no sound is produced at all? Thanks!

"Dissonant music brings out the animal in listeners" I don't know about this. Dissonance is effective because it reminds us of animal distress calls, but why are animal distress calls effective? Because they're dissonant, maybe?

Hello everyone, I am a music composer and total noob. So please excuse my lack of engineering knowledge. I am attempting to build a music box that can play without having to turn the gear's crankshaft manually. Here is a picture of the music box: I have been doing some research and think I...

Hello , I have recently joined a guitar class. And I am facing a problem with the terminology. I have to confess that terms such as notes, chords , scales, pitch seem Greek to me. I have had no experience with music before. I am on the lookout for a book/website which teaches this stuff. It...

Hello there I am sorry if this sounds silly or out dated i want to ask anyone, how can i model the mathematical representation from music signal(time domain). lets say i recorded the signal from guitar through my music production software and print screen that signal as shown here...

I'm a bit interested in finding out – what kind of music do you enjoy? I'm just curious for the sake of knowledge in seeing the musical tastes of those in the sciences. So, if you would, post your favorite music (songs, bands, genres, whatever) and, if I'm not probing too much, your relation...

Hi guys, I’m new here! Just want to say hello and hope to gain some experience from you. I want to download some new music but my ipod is almost running out of space. I really don’t want to delete the old songs, so can I backup them to my computer? Do you have any experience?

Pretty sure I have some misconceptions, please correct me thanks. SHORT VERSION According to Nyquist's theory, if I want to digitally record a live opera and be able to reconstruct back to exactly the original sound quality, I have to sample at at least twice the frequency of the original...

So there have been some music threads but I haven't seen an album thread, although I'm usually more interested in albums rather than specific songs. What is your favorite music album? Feel free to include what it does to you/what aspect of it blows you away. Also try to limit it to a top...

Not all threads need to be constructive. So tell me your worst, most annoying music out there. What tune makes you rip your hair out??

Hi everyone! I haven't posted here in a while, but I lurk pretty much every day. I guess I'm just not as educated as I would like to be for me to feel comfortable in participating with the discussion I enjoy reading... I'm deeply inspired by science and the great mysteries of life and reality...

I have been pondering what music actually is, why does a certain configuration of sounds increase dopamine/endorphin in our brain. What makes music feel good. Is it their mathematical order in the sounds so they follow mathematical rules or equations? Or is it something pshycological that...

What is the difference between sound and music? What is the basic property of music?

I am a physics and electrical engineering major and wish to know if there are any specific music career opportunities that utilize the concepts I've learned from both. I really have a passion for music production and any help would be greatly appreciated.

So, we plan to meet our neighbors on Christmas and to listen to sixties music. I already have plenty of titles ready (including Polish songs that you have most likely never heard), there are plenty of lists on the web, but I wonder what are favorite sixties songs of other PFers.

Can you study well with music? I'm considering buying an Ipod touch because sometimes when I am studying, I get bored and want to listen to some music, so I go on youtube for a music video. However, being on youtube, the land of procrastination, I just get to another video that's not even music...

Sometimes songs and artists just become much more special when you understand what the artist is truly singing about. What information or experience has helped you to fully appreciate certain music? I'll give you an example: I never cared for Eric Clapton. That is, until today, when I came...

I'm studying the MUSIC algorithm in order to implement it in some project of mine, but I have some difficulties understanding the mathematical derivations done in the original Schmidt paper. For those of you who have access to this paper, I'll appreciate your time and help. The author begins...

hey everybody, I am a newcomer here, just stumbled upon this forum whilst reading about different university programs. i would really appreciate any advice regarding an academic plunge into the engineering field as a means to learn more about music synthesis, particularly analog synthesizers...

I'd been requested to listen to some Jazz artists - Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and other 'giants' of the field. I decided to give it a shot and started off with Coltrane's Love Supreme and all I could hear was random jarring noise. I honestly do not understand why this is so...

Hi Do I really need to take economics/statistics/finance course in my undergraduate years if I am considering the possibility of landing on a finance job? I really do not want to worry about getting job in my undergraduate years but would like to put some serious thoughts after my graduate...

Moment of inertia of a "music triangle" Homework Statement Find the moment of inertia about an axis thru the centre of mass, perpendicular to the plane of an equilateral triangle consisting of identical rods of length 'l' and mass 'm' connected at their ends. Homework Equations...

Hello! I am a recent university grad, majored in physics, with a strong background in programming and maths. I've had a couple non-physics research positions, and am looking to go back to school for a masters. All my life I've been very passionate about music, from composing classical...

I would like to run a calculation so that when it has converged, a song will play... to alert me from the other room (for example). http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/techdoc/ref/audioplayer.html I found this but can't quite put it together? Their example was: Examples Load and play a...