Re: [tuning-math] common musical intervals in Babylonian math texts

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: monz <joemonz@yahoo.com>
> To: <celestial-tuning@yahoogroups.com>; <tuning-math@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 8:59 AM
> Subject: [tuning-math] Re: [celestial-tuning] common musical intervals in
Babylonian math texts
>
>
> Wow... look what I found in the appendix to Stecchini's
> series of articles on ancient measurement:
>
> http://www.metrum.org/measures/appendix.htm
>
>
> > I have given to the discrepancies names derived from
> > the accidentals of musical scales, because there is
> > a close correlation between units of measures and
> > ancient musical scales.

I was just talking with Brink and had this idea:

If the Sumerians based their musical interval measurements
on the same ones they used for building physical brick structures,
they could possibly have viewed a wall (for example) as a
lattice-diagram!

Would some of the geometers out there take a look at
Stecchini's articles
http://www.metrum.org/measures/length_u.htm
http://www.metrum.org/measures/stereometric.htm

and construct some plausible examples? I'd be very
interested in that, but am having a hard time understanding
the proliferation of different measurement units.

If I can get a better understanding, perhaps I'll give
it a try.

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"

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