Music Moves In Special Patterns

15 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Short transcript excerpt in which a speaker observes symbolic numerical patterns in musical intervals (descending in thirds associated with 3; ascending in fourths associated with 4) and reflects that these patterns likely ‘mean something.’ The speaker emphasizes the importance of cross-disciplinary knowledge to notice and investigate such patterns.

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In music, when you descend, you descend in thirds, and 3 is the number of God, but when you ascend, you ascend in fourths, and four is the number of the earth. Here's what I'm going to say. I don't know what it means yet, but I do know that it means something. And so if I'm not aware of it, then I don't even get to discover that it means something, because I wouldn't even become aware that it's a thing. So that's why it's so important to know stuff about a lot of different disciplines, seemingly disconnected, but super fascinating to me.