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Anna Vilenskaya is a musicologist, lecturer and researcher of contemporary music. In her lectures, she shows what Adele's songs and Mozart's works have in common, as well as Radiohead's compositions and the music of the Early Renaissance. Especially for the "Eager Engineer" project, Anna will tell us how music is similar to mathematics and how harmony, intervals and tonalities are explained mathematically. We will talk about whether there is a secret to the ideal harmony of sounds and how to create a composition that will penetrate the listener's heart. 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:16:42 – Piano Tuning: Then and Now 00:25:10 – Baroque Chords 00:27:30 – Guitar Chords Today 00:29:18 – Mathematical Chord Progressions 00:33:26 – Rhythm and Philippe de Vitry 00:37:20 – Rhythm and Syncopation 00:42:34 – Artificial Intelligence 00:50:08 – Q&A In this lecture, you will also learn: How to calculate which harmonies people will like and how to create a rhythm that will make them feel what the author intended What the numbers next to a chord mean and how people in different eras combined music with numbers How to use AI to write music and what tasks it cannot handle yet Read more interesting things in Anna's interview on our portal: https://engineer.yadro.com/interview/... // The project "Istovyi Inzhener" https://engineer.yadro.com is made by the YADRO team https://yadro.com and the media company Paper https://paperpaper.ru // Become a part of the YADRO team! https://careers.yadro.com #music #composing #musictechnologies #sound