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- Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:08 am
- Forum: Music Related
- Topic: Could this be the solution to Elgar's Enigma?
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Re: Could this be the solution to Elgar's Enigma?
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it could be a duck.
- Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:53 pm
- Forum: Music Related
- Topic: Could this be the solution to Elgar's Enigma?
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Re: Could this be the solution to Elgar's Enigma?
Not convincing – the choice of terminating the expansion of pi after 3 decimal digits is completely arbitrary. Winged black notes? What have you guys been smoking? The two sevenths follow after the tenth note of the theme, not the eleventh, so the construction of the fraction 22/7 seems more than a...
- Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:18 pm
- Forum: Music Related
- Topic: Could this be the solution to Elgar's Enigma?
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Could this be the solution to Elgar's Enigma?
"Solving Elgar's Enigma", co-written by C R Santa and Matthew Santa, is now printed in Current Musicology, a journal published by Columbia University. In 2007, a retired engineer observed that the first four notes of Elgar's Enigma Variations were scale degree 3-1-4-2, decimal Pi. Pi is a ...