Ever since I was born I’ve gained my perceptions, and before any other

senses, I’ve become fully aware of my ability to hear because the first thing that I
felt was hearing my mom saying she loves me and calling my name. I hear sounds
all around, to my own cry and my mother’s nagging, but when I got older, I never
knew that sounds could revolve my life. I realize that sounds is not just sounds
anymore because it can be something that is beautiful by creating the right
combinations of it. Who could have thought that adding one sound to another
could make you feel things, like happiness from fast pace songs that make me
want to dance or sadness from watching my favorite drama while hearing that
slow mellow sound? It’s incredible how these sounds could express emotions with
these waves going through our ears being interpreted by the brain. In fact
humans are the only ones who makes these sounds pretty and interesting that
neat things is, it has a name and we call it music. But I wonder, do people that
make music magically made it pretty? As I listen to my favorite song, I unknowingly
stomp my feet following along the beat of a pattern, and it goes by four counts
to go back to the part of the tune where it started. After playing my favorite song,
another song was on queue and this time this song goes by using slower counts.
It made think that how come there are different songs that have different
counting if there all just sounds anyway? I then remember this memory from my
music class, and we were having this lesson about time signatures and note
lengths that made me realize how important role of numbers could be in music
when it comes to composing it. Turns out, people don’t just make music pretty by
putting together random sounds. I discovered that what makes music, to be
music is that it has foundations, mathematical foundations specifically, to make
structures to make it pretty by a mixture of different elements like harmony,
patterns, and rhythm.

Math is always seen as something that is all logical and cold, meanwhile
music is something that purely involve emotions but here’s the thing, the
connection between the two is more than that. Math is not just about its
operations and symbols - just like how a content of a book is more than just its
words and punctuation marks. Music is not just about just about notes and beats
either but If you think of it, it’s more about putting together the right notes itself is
what makes both music and mathematics truly connected.

Just like music, mathematics is all around us. With the patterns and numbers
in our world, it makes you think twice that math can be cunning too. From how
the spiral of snail shells has the same sequence as the Fibonacci spiral or how the
number of petals of a flower is always a Fibonacci number, math is so mysterious
that is it’s so complex and beautiful. As we explore, it is seen that numbers do
have a weird connections with our universe.
 Meanwhile in music, the Fibonacci sequence can be observed in piano
scales, for instance on the piano, the C scale is made up of 13 keys from C to C
which is the eight white keys and five black keys, with having black keys organized
in clusters of three and two.

Just like how music is not just about hitting that last note of the song, math
is more than just getting that final answer. As a student engineer it is in my vocation
to be great at math. In my journey with math, I admittedly disliked math before
because I misunderstood its impact in my life, just like how I despise sounds before.
Nevertheless, I’ve eventually learned to comprehend and appreciate it, and
seen math in a different angle. My ride with is more like is an exciting roller coaster
ride. I’ve read proofs and redone my calculations the same way as how a listener
like myself could do to music – to understand its content, how it was build,
transform, and intertwined

Mathematics involves choices from deciding on what piece in

mathematics is significant to “listen to”. There is art behind math, and those who
do math chose what math will thrill their feelings the most.

What attaches the world of math and the world of music together is what
the mathematicians and composers have in common, and that is they are
regularly attracted to the similar structures for what they compose. Patterns are
the nearest link of music and math. We can see this in choruses that have
repeating and similar patterns. In math, patterns helps us understand and guess
the indefinite. Musicians also have their own strategy to look for the unknown.
When a musicians looks at a musical piece, they are using the notes that they
already know and look for other notes that they think could be different and
unique. From the way I see it, notes relate to each other just like how numbers do
in math.

In the end I’ll just make my conclusion short because I’ve pretty much said
everything I needed to say: math and music has been given and will continue to
give the world more sense and understanding, and without these two, the world
could be pretty dull.