Leonhard Euler’s Theory of Music: Its Present-Day Significance and Influence on Certain Fields of Musical Thought
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The article examines the musical research works of Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) in which the
scholar forestalls the theoretical and informational aspects of musical knowledge and presents an
original interpretation of issues of harmony, as well as of the relations between pitch and rhythm
organization within the framework of the general processes of periodicity. Notwithstanding the
historically explainable bounds of these outlooks, they have proven to be significant due to the
numerous features of great heuristic significance which remains relevant up to the present day. The
greatest value in Euler’s theory is determined by posing a number of fundamental musicological
issues, the emergence of which was stipulated by the condition of musicology and other disciplines
during Euler’s time. It may be asserted with full substantiation that a more active application
of these ideas would bring new fruitful theoretical and practical results in the sphere of musical
education and upbringing, as well. Thereby, Leonhard Euler’s theoretical views on music create the
necessary conditions for the continuity between traditional musical education and informational
technologies in the contemporary educational process.
Keywords: Leonhard Euler, music theory, harmony, rhythm, theory of information.
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