Geometry & Music

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Repeating the words someone said a long time ago, "If mathematics and music have something in common, it is that both need the creativity to be developed" (Einstein, 1930)

Have you ever thought on the relation that music and geometry have?

Future teachers, students or curious people in general... You are in the RIGHT PLACE! Be ready to learn something new.
Let's take a look on this interesting aspect... Everyday we can learn something new.

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As a musician, I am really glad to explain you some ideas related to the geometry and, of course, as it is the topic of this entry, the music and its relations. 

Through the music, as teachers, we can work with our students in an transdisciplinary way. It can be strange at first, but music and geometry let us establish relations between the contents and the reality, our daily life. It is a practical experience, also dynamic and, apart from everything, it is really enriching and motivating.

There are not many sources that relate music with geometry, specially in Spain. However, we can work on both aspects through different methods. For example, and relating the geometry and the music in the area of education, we can explain students symmetry from a simple score. Take a look on this picture... 

If we see it, it has a mirror effect. Analyzing a simple score with the different notes (something really common in Spain, where students use to play the recorder and interpret different.

Music and mathematics are universal languages, they are abstract concepts that require learning to be able to identify what it tells us. They both also try to find the beauty. 



🔺 A CURIOSITY!!!!!!!!!!!

 Some professors of the University of EEUU- Clifton Callender of Florida, specialist in music created a new method to analyze and classify the music according to a visual representation through geometric figures. I totally invite you to take a look on this webpage: http://www.agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Los-cientificos-desvelan-la-geometria-de-la-musica 

 According to this system, there are some geometrical figures that are pron to transmit a sense of relax and have more tendency to produce a good impact on the students and people in general. Music has the same effect on people.
If the songs we use to listen are composed by symbols of this perfect geometrical system, that could mean that the song will provoke a positive effect on the ones listening to it.

 USE MUSIC IN YOUR CLASSROOM TO MOTIVATE STUDENTS. YOU CAN EXPLAIN THEM SOME DETAILS OF GEOMETRY AND ALSO ENJOY IT.

 🔛 Do you want to work and be concentrated? LISTEN TO MUSIC. I will recommend you some of the best songs, according to this mathematical representation and also to the formula of Jacob Joling. The top ten of musical songs is:
1- Don't stop me now - Queen
2- Dancing Queen - ABBA
3- Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
4- Uptown Girl- Billie Joel
5- Eye of the tiger - The survivor
6- I'm a believer - The Monkeys
7- Girl just wanna have fun - Cyndi Lauper
8- Livin' on a prayer - Bon Jovi
9- I will survive - Gloria Gaynor
10- Walking on sunshine - Katrina & The waves

To conclude, I give you a song called "Geometría Polisentimental" of a Spanish singer, Alaska discovered thanks to my classmate Laura Ramírez Granados. Another example where music talks about geometry : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnyuKIV8J_M 

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