ABSTRACT

The idea that universe is created out of music is a very ancient one. Remember the Pythagorean school, Kepler’s “Harmony of spheres,” and many elder assertions of philosophical schools from India, Sum­ mer, and China. The reformer Martin Luther also claimed that music is a gift of God to man. We are not able to judge metaphys­ ical problems of this sort, about relation of music and the material world. Or, in particular, to judge what is music or what is not. The obvious fact is that music (or, what is commonly understood as music) is composed or ordered somehow. In other words, the basic material of music, tones, can be structured. These structures are tone systems.