4 Quotes by John Martineau

Islamic patterns speak of infinity and the omnipresent center.

Geometry is ‘number in space’, music is ‘number in time’.

In a seven-tone scale the eighth note is the octave, twice the pitch of the first note, and so signals the movement to a new level. This may be why, in religious symbolism, the eighth step is often associated with spiritual evolution or salvation.

We see that music, like the world, is formed from unchanging mathematical principles deployed in time, creating complexity, variety and beauty.