The Harmonic and Inverse Harmonic Series

I recently read a statement by Richard Dawkins - "Without evolution Biology is a collection of miscellaneous facts...How can you possibly teach biology unless you begin with evolution." That makes a lot of sense (even to a 'non-Biologist' such as myself!).

But in the same way I suspect there is an even more fundamental cornerstone of organisation that lies at the heart of why things are the way they are...

The issue is - how are things related, and - if you accept my aim 'to be musical' - how can we adjust their relation to make them more musical?

So - to re-phrase Dawkins...Without the Harmonic and inverse harmonic series music is a collection of miscellaneous sounds...how can you possibly teach music unless you begin with the Harmonic and inverse harmonic series?

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