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“Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for harmony. He thought about the Pythagorean major third, the Didymus comma, the way the intervals sound out of tune rather than as though they were different notes. This, he thought, was where his brilliance at mathematics bled into his love of music; music was the realm in which his mathematical brain danced.”

Way Different Sound Brain Heard Possibility Majors Thirds Harmony Mathematics Notes Scales Opening Mathematical Realms Tunes His Love Brilliance Music Love Intervals

Author:Ru Freeman

“It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.”

Writing May Sound Hours Products Musical Scales Paradoxical Fluency

Author:Stanley Fish

“The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.”

Sound Simple Common Speech Details Scales Unexpected

Book:99 Poems: New & Selected

Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected

“Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails”

Littles Sound Music Musician Notes Fishes Scales Tails Down The Road

Author:Louis MacNeice

“It sounds funny to say, but we saw [Kate's wedding to Prince William] as just a family wedding. And actually, I didn't realize - perhaps - the scale of it until afterwards. We all took on the roles as any family would.”

Reality Sound Realizing Family Roles History Saws Scales Kate Family History

Author:Pippa Middleton

“It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this.”

Reason Motivational Sound Scales

Author:Lakshmi Mittal