# Music

**What is music?**

A way into music through many doors: the physics of sound, the mathematics of ratios, the ear, tuning and harmony, and the traditions and arts of the world. Each line between two ideas reads in both directions, and the two readings differ.

Connects to:
- [Vibration and pitch](https://mapideas.org/i/mu_vibration)
- [Ratios](https://mapideas.org/i/mu_ratio)
- [The cochlea](https://mapideas.org/i/mu_cochlea)
- [The octave](https://mapideas.org/i/mu_octave)
- [Gamelan and ombak](https://mapideas.org/i/mu_gamelan)

Sources:
- [What is music? A course through many lenses](https://sofiagallego.com/what-is-music/)

Source: https://mapideas.org/i/music · open on the map: https://mapideas.org/#music