Music theory to life theory

Music theory to life theory [+ favourites]

The tuning of instruments dates back to the greeks. The Pythagoreans came up with a ratio 2:1 the golden ratio. They used it to tune their lyres and harps. There is one problem with this type of "natural tuning" you are unable to play all the scales and chords. Well you could but it sounds horrid. During the Renissance man altered this tuning to create a perfect relationship with the scales and chords.
The "natural tuning" of instruments is flawed. So this 2:1 ratio, which is mans blue print is also flawed. Yet with mans intervention we were albe to fix the flaw and make something beautiful and perfect. Why not apply this system of nature and man to formulate a perfect ballance with in our life, our society and governments? For 2:1 is 2 parts nature and 1 part humans.

Goes deeper but to much to type... lol

"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

Mr. kworld, that is nice observation. Respectfully, I would pay heed to other thinkers, especially musicologists. Confer with W.A. Mathieu and his book "Harmonic Experience." In the beginning of his book, he states that many musicians have simply lost the art of singing in tune with each other. In it he says, 'Equal temperament has been something like an electric light-highly useful, but alienating us from the basic rhythmns of the sun and moon, the purest phases of being."

Can our lives ever be "perfectly" balanced? And if so, how do you know that it will be brought by a synthesis between man and nature? In either case, doesn't seem that "natural tuning" is yet another aspect of man, and the way he listens to the world around him? In that case, is there ever such a thing as "natural" tuning? Maybe what we perceive to be natural is really "our perceptions." Therefore, not natual as in outside of ourselves, in a pristine natural sense. But a way that man interprets and structures the way that the outside world rushes into his senses.

All that being said, I think that you may be onto something.
As always, I could be wrong.

"I could be wrong"

One more thing that I forgot to add. Might it be that when we tinker with life, towards the end goal of making something "beautiful and perfect," that we could potentially alienate ourselves from the fundamental experience of the thing to be perfected. In the end, potentially losing sight of what "needed" fixing.

"I could be wrong"

lets me try this again i was unalbe to submit my post due to technical difficulties...
Jaili you are right on what i have observed. As humans we are flawed its only clear, if we werent then we would already have a perfect and beautiful life. Since we are flawed that means everthing we see or do is flawed. So by man listening to our world and making it our own, what we have accomplshed is manipulating what we have recieved form nature and making it humanic.. if you will. It is no longer nautral. There is a pattern in the stars but their is no need to count, let the cosmos do what it does best. The day we figure out the natural aspects of our world and the secrets of the cosmos is the day it becomes curropt.

"How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
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