Rhythm + Harmony = Music

Kirk breaks down the two most fundamental aspects of music: rhythm and harmony. There's the Y-axis, harmony, which tells us which frequencies we're hearing in which combinations. And there's the X-axis, rhythm, which tells us how those frequencies are playing out over time. Much like most music, it's a mix of math and magic that takes many moons to master.

REFERENCED/DISCUSSED:

• "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton, performed by Whitney Houston
• "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin from Led Zeppelin IV, 1971
• The Pentatonix cover of "Havana" from Top Pop, Vol. 1
• "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, 1977
• "Countdown" by John Coltrane from Giant Steps, 1960
• "The Waltz of the Flowers" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky from The Nutcracker, 1892
• "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks from The Kinks, 1964
• "Use It" by the New Pornographers from Twin Cinema, 2005
• "Take Five" by Paul Desmond and "Blue Rondo a  la Turk" by Dave Brubeck from Time Out, 1959
• "Cory Wong teaches audience to count 25/8" posted by Arlington Hayne to YouTube
• "Weni" by Timnit Welday via YouTube
• "Janie Runaway" by Steely Day from Two Against Nature, 2000

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