////Re: The law of fives, it is significant that the first attempt at harmony is organum built on intervals of fifths and then gynmel, on fourths.

The fifth has a resonance in music that seems international. It is an essential part of the overtone series beyond the first octave.

It's significant that as a harmonic device it doesn't sound discordant to most ears.

I'm not sure the Law of Fives has anything practical to do with music but it engenders speculation.////

I mentioned that decans were divided into two and each half was called a quinary. Foolstroupe looked it up and saw it related to five-ness and went off about the law of fives which has nothing to do with anything I've written about here. Foolstroupe has a need to attack anything and everything I post and usually nips off one of his own limbs in the process. But, like most bottom-feeders, he'll regenerate a new one and be back in time to attack my next post.

Don Firth runs a close second. On another thread he insisted that I read the writings of Kaku Michio to know what I was talking about. Now that I've quoted, Don comes back with, "Well, you can't take Kaku at face value!" Oh.