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Pythagoras is transported to the present day with a time machine. He has never seen a piano before. Briefly explain the way it is organized to him in terms of ratios, consonance/dissonance, scales, and melody. Show what you know about the way music is structured according to consonant and dissonant intervals. Keep it pretty simple for this old-school dude.

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Hey Pythagorus! Check out this cool instrument. The sounds are made when you press this key and it drops a hammer onto strings of different lengths.

2 pts - A. Two important ratios of string lengths are represented on this instrument this way ...

2 pts - B. Two important consonant and dissonant intervals are represented on this instrument this way ...

2 pts C. You would play a diatonic scale versus a chromatic scale this way, I'll use the key of C as an example ...

1 pts D. A melody would be a series of notes that ...