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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · Oct 20, 2025
332 | Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music
“Musicologist, composer, and Princeton professor exploring mathematical structures in music and author of 'A Geometry of Music'”
Musical scales and frequency ratios (Pythagorean tuning, just intonation, equal temperament)Harmonic consonance and overtone structure in instrumentsDiatonic and pentatonic scale systems across cultures
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