Have you ever thought about comparing music to physics? It’s a physical material thing, has order to it, and is written in the universe. So why not? Sound is pressure waves traveling through air. There is no sound if there is no air. The pitch of a note is determined by its frequency, how frequently it vibrates. Pipe organs are used to display the different types of overtones there are in music. You play the main note and then other notes vary throughout where it can sound like other instruments. Flute and clarinet sound different because they’re producing different over tones.

When thinking about music in the forms of architecture, you would never think to compare the two. Renaissance artist Leon Battita Alberti, thought architectural proportions is based on comparing to harmonic relationships in music, harmonious buildings. “Architecture is frozen music.” You can look at a beautiful building, let’s say for example a church, and see shapes in the structures with beautiful designs. It is very harmonious and can be compared to that in the relationship of music. You can almost hear how beautiful it is.