PAINTING MUSIC MATH ART SERIES

It’s called pi – sound familiar? It comes in advanced math and has something to do with the areas of circles. So we have a sound for numbers! Great, right?! He also figured out that it was a good idea to number chords as well as notes, and from this comes the modern numbering of chord symbols.

PAINTING MUSIC MATH ART SERIES

He also discovered that musical notes form a series and gave the numbers from which the art of modern tuning derives. It begins with Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician who discovered a²+b²=c². So when somebody shared a music and math Ted Talk with Simply Music, it got my attention. A brief example comes to us from Rudolf Steiner: students in the schools he founded learn to draw patterns, straight and curved lines (and discover this is what everything is made up of) before they even learn to write modern lettering. Arts integration – the idea we can use the arts (painting, music, drama) to teach something else – has always interested me. I have students who love math, who are very good at reasoning and finding relationships between things. Research shows that the study of music makes you smarter, especially at Elementary school level, in reading and math. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to let them know that they are much better than they think?

A lot of musicians and students of music would go so far as to say they aren’t great at math.

For some, mentioning the words music and math in the same sentence just doesn’t fit.

Painting music math art