Outline of the Monochord Thread

the foundation of this project was to be a thread passing through all the grades, like euclid and archeoastronomy

grade 4: prehistoric music

archeological evidence of the scales used

grade 5: ancient eqyptian instruments, scales, recorded music

esp double flutes, three-stringed lyres, etc

grade 6: pythagoras and the monochord

the goal should be to understand the scale of pythagoras as given by plato in the timeaus (where the octave, fifth, and fourth are perfect and the third is not)

grade 7: the pythagorean comma

the distinction between the semitone and the hemitone

fat and thin fulltones, the two major thirds

grade 8: medieval developments

muslim additions

grade 9: equal temperament and modern science

giorgi, alberti, and palladio apply ratios to architecture

vicenzio and galileo in the kitchen with a monochord

grade 10: vibrations, frequencies, spectra

d'alembert, fourier, chaldni, ben franklin

grade 11: modern additions

harry partch, synthesizers, etc