As we'll see, seeking the Pythagorean ideal causes trouble. It will unleash the devil in music.
^^ from the article. this kind of thing bothers me. what is the devil? for whom is it the devil? music doesnt havent to be "christian" to "sound good".
It's not a literal allusion to satan and never was, it's akin to the idiom "the devil is in the details."
It was nearly or actually impossible to harmonize or progress tritones while following the medieval "rules" for church music composition. So it is someone complaining about their work, not a statement about musical morality or whatever.
multiply by 3^m/2^n is a human construction. and it breaks after a bunch of m,n. to expect it "not to break" is well an expectation. nature always has a comma, its not clockwork.
This has certainly happened to someone if not the OP.
I did wait in a single spot for almost 10h, my 5-6h journey became a 15h one, in Serbia in the late 2000s. IIRC, a large part of the railway was down that day, couple hundred km, electricity issue or something. Some people walked off the train, which was in between cities but near the road. I was a student, didn't have an alternative, so I didn't. They didn't organize a replacement bus.
This kind of thing was (maybe not to that extent) common, like once every year or two. They rarely reported on it in media if the cause wasn't notable.
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