Cool background JLS. And as I understand it, Pythagoras played with the resonance along a piece of string and found the tone intervals based on the fifths....but it seems it was used earlier in Mesopotamia.

Just finished reading a book about ancient Sumer....awesome what that civilization produced in terms of "firsts" ...including music and scales and lyric and epic poetry and love songs

Mesopotamia and Babylon inherited much from Sumer and built on that, and Pythagoras inherited a lot of it...even as I understand it, his theorem



Originally Posted by John Lawrence Schick
Originally Posted by bennash
I think I’ll pretend to be Bach again and destroy the circle of fifths , we’ll see how this one turns out ,
No idea what them Yale folks are doing in DC
I’m sure it’s informative.

Found this, though one can't believe everything found on the Internet: "The circle of fifths was introduced in the late 1600s and early 1700s by composer and theorist Nikolay Diletsky as a tool for songwriters and composers to help them in their work123. It was later improved upon by Johann David Heinichen in the 1720s, resulting in the modern version we use today23. Although the concept can be traced back to medieval music theorist Guido of Arezzo, the actual circle diagram was formalized in the 18th century4. An early version, known as the Pythagorean Circle, is said to have been around since 600 BC"

John smile

If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop