is classical music like math?

**Frownland** · 03-11-2016, 11:36 PM

OP: are you referring to the classical period of music or the more colloquial usage of "classical music"?

I think that while music is quantifiable in a similar way to math, the rules that lie in mathematics keeps me from comparing them too much. There are certain truths in math that can be approached in different ways but lead to similar basic theorems and such. Like any art form, music isn't cut and dry. The cuts in math are clear and defined, while music is murky and subjective. Most of the greats in the classical world are considered as such when they break or bend the rules and develop a new style.

I forgot how this post started off but I feel like I made some good points.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	OP: are you referring to the classical period of music or the more colloquial usage of "classical music"? I think that while music is quantifiable in a similar way to math, the rules that lie in mathematics keeps me from comparing them too much. There are certain truths in math that can be approached in different ways but lead to similar basic theorems and such. Like any art form, music isn't cut and dry. The cuts in math are clear and defined, while music is murky and subjective. Most of the greats in the classical world are considered as such when they break or bend the rules and develop a new style. I forgot how this post started off but I feel like I made some good points. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x