The development of harmony, the ratios of vibration that introduce degrees of dissonance into music, evolved out of the organum of the late 10th and 11th centuries. While credit for this development is unquestionably shared by many composers of the age, let’s focus on two. Hildegard of Bingen was by any measure a remarkable woman. … Continue reading Revolutionaries
Month: July 2021
A brief introduction
At its core, music is as much mathematics as art: The godfather of Western music—all Western music—is none other than Pythagoras, the Triangle King himself. In or around 500 BC, Pythagoras developed the modern scale by taking metal bars and dividing them sequentially by 2/3 to create successive notes. Pythagoras’ scale had 12 tones—you can … Continue reading A brief introduction
About this blog
Gert and I have had a running conversation to the side of The Professor's incredible Gert Song of the Day project, which kept our band of jolly good fellows sane and connected through 500 days of The Pandemic. I dare say that we all learned a lot from the Professor, who knows more about pop … Continue reading About this blog
A Gertus History of Music 