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<h3 class="widget-title">How did I met Sara?</h3>
<p>I met Sara on <a href="http://www.lasqueti.ca">Lasquet</a>i&nbsp;. We connected right away. Sara felt like a sister, we laugh, dance and talked. Sara is a beautiful artist in so many ways. She play piano, guitar, sign, designed and build her house. One time when I visited her she challenged me in a iron fist fight. Guest who won? Sara did and she told me a story that she use to arm wrestle people at Hornby market for money. I think she only been beating up once. That story really made me giggle, she is definitely&nbsp;unique in so many ways.</p>
<h3 class="widget-title">Why the major Scale has Seven notes?</h3>			<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rffdYQtpKMs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
<h3 class="widget-title">Music Theorist and Cosmologist</h3>
<p class="p1">I'm Sara de Rose, a music theorist and cosmologist and I want to explain to you the connection between the 7-day week and the major scale.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">Here's the story of how I discovered this connection.</p>
<p class="p1">I was born in Toronto, in the mid sixties. As a child, I took the requisite lessons with the neighbourhood piano teacher. Then, as a teenager, I picked up the guitar. I soon began to create what I came to call the <a href="http://musicircle.net/">Musicircle</a> - a tool that helped me learn about music theory.&nbsp;</p>
<p class="p1">In my 20's I began to study the night sky, becoming familiar with the movements of the visible planets and although I was unaware of the ancient model of the universe, I began to conceptualize their movements with this model in mind.</p>
<p class="p1">Then one evening, in my late 30's, I lay in bed working out a theory question with the <a href="http://musicircle.net/">Musicircle</a>. When I was done, I put the <a href="http://musicircle.net/">Musicircle</a> on the floor beside my bed and my mind went on to other things ... one of which was wondering at the order of the days of the week. I had recently learned that the days were named after the seven ancient planets. But why in this order?</p>
<p class="p1">I woke up in the night and imagined giving each of the ancient planets a number, depending on its apparent speed. But the week isn't ordered this way. So I listed the numbers I had given the ancient planets, but this time in the order given by the week. I began: #4 (the sun), #1 (the moon), #5 (Mars)...and here I stopped, amazed. I reached down for the <a href="http://musicircle.net/">Musicircle</a> and there, on the key finder, was the same sequence. How could this be?</p>
<p class="p1">I had to find out. I started to read about the ancient tradition of the music of the spheres and understood that a connection existed, in the ancient world, between the subjects of music and astronomy. But nowhere could I find a description of what this connection was.</p>
<p class="p1">But I felt sure that the ordering of the days of the week and the selection of the major scale by the same sequence was no coincidence. Where could this originate? I knew I had to learn about the origin of the circle of fifths.</p>
<p class="p1">Being a mother of young children, my study hours were early in the morning, before the world awoke. So, every morning, I searched for patterns in a single string, taking a strip of paper the length of a guitar string and folding it repeatedly in thirds to generate a line of fifths. Before long I understood that, to make a scale, the fifths needed to be reduced into a single octave. I kept a tally of the number of octaves each fifth descends and, miraculously, the sequence began to emerge.</p>
<p class="p1">My study hours in the years since that time have been spent in several ways. My first task was to find documentation of the use of the sequence through history. This led to a deeper understanding of the Music of the Spheres tradition. With regards to the study of music, the <a href="http://musicircle.net/">Musicircle</a> has continued to be an inspirational teacher, guiding me through deeper and deeper levels of understanding of music theory. And, of course, I find lasting inspiration and wonder in the night sky.</p>
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<h3 class="widget-title">Workshop</h3>
<p>Music of the Spheres in the Classroom is my favorite workshop. It offers an exciting cross-curricular learning opportunity for primary and middle school students. The children integrate the study of the subjects of music, astronomy, mathematics and geometry (the ancient Quadrivium) while developing their reading, writing and performance skills to put on a play for their community.</p>
<p class="p1">I now teach a variety of workshops. Songwriting with the <a href="http://musicircle.net/">Musicircle</a> introduces the <a href="http://musicircle.net/">Musicircle</a> as an aid to composition. The workshop<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>Deriving the Sequence Through Paper Folding<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>explains the pattern of the frets on a guitar and what this pattern has to do with the week-day sequence. This workshop is especially versatile: I've done it with a classroom of 12 year-olds and, at the other extreme, a group of university professors.</p>
<p class="p1">I love to imagine those who first found the sequence 4,1,5,2,6,3,7 (more than three thousand years ago, in Babylon?) and those who, during the centuries before the Christian era, embedded the sequence into the tradition of the music of the spheres, using it to order the days of the week. I also have great respect for the early Jewish Fathers, who honoured the observance of the week (and consequently of the sequence) as the fourth of the Ten Commandments. When the Emperor Constantine made the week an official unit of time throughout the Roman Empire, it became used throughout Europe. In the modern era, the week has been adopted world-wide.</p>
<p class="p1">Each week we live out this musical sequence, octave upon octave. And because a single string contains an infinite number of octaves, there is room for every future generation to participate in this great musical composition: the week of days.</p>
<p class="p1">Is that how those who created the week envisioned us, thousands of years in the future: living out our days in this musical sequence? What a beautiful vision: the human race contained within - bounded and guided by - a single string.</p>
<p class="p1">If you want to talk to Sara you can email her:&nbsp;<a href="http://sara_de_rose@hotmail.com">sara_de_rose@hotmail.com</a></p>