by Kurt Knecht | Apr 8, 2012 | doppler shift, music, Uncategorized
Dr. Weiss wrote back and asked if it would be possible to produce any major (or minor) chord of higher or lower frequency using the Doppler shift.(You can read the previous post here.)The problem with this is that once we hit 340 m/s, we are at the sound barrier. As I...
by Kurt Knecht | Apr 7, 2012 | doppler shift, music, Uncategorized
A physician friend phoned me the other day with an interesting problem. He was discussing the Doppler shift with some physics friends. They wondered if it was possible to hear a chord shift from major to minor due to the Doppler shift. If you don’t know anything about...
by Kurt Knecht | Aug 8, 2011 | art, culture, epistemology, Martin Buber, music, Uncategorized
In the not too distant past, I heard a common argument from a musicologist. He argued that “art was an expression of culture”. The underlying pedagogical theory behind this argument is that in order to understand the specific art object under discussion, it is...
by Kurt Knecht | Jun 2, 2011 | hope, music, Plato, Uncategorized
In a wonderful passage from Phaedrus, Plato tells us the relationship between the soul’s apprehension of truth and the corresponding occupation of the person inheriting it. He says that “the soul which has seen most of truth shall come to the birth as a...
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