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Math & Music cocktail: 2/3 fractions + 1/3 harmony

Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 2 at 19:30 in the Cultural Center San Josep de L'Hospitalet de Llobregat near Barcelona, the talk “Còctel mate-musical: 2/3 fraccions + 1/3 d’harmonia” (“Math & Music Cocktail: 2/3 fractions + 1/3 harmony”) will be given by Joan Jareño, math teacher at IES Alella and member of CREAMAT and Francina Turón, PhD in Physics, pianist and cellist and music teacher at the IES Sant Vicenç de Montalt.

1 june 2010

History tell us that Pythagoras made the first attempt to establish a direct link between music and mathematics. Since then, many mathematicians have tried to tighten the cords between both worlds. One of them, Leibniz, went on to say that music is a form of counting without realizing it. Pythagoras spoke of the “music of the spheres,” and the talk will enter this “spheres of music” to see how, from the calculation with fractions and with a few drops of harmony, we can construct the musical scale. All this with a little musical accompaniment.

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