The Man Who Invented Music

We all know Pythagoras did quite a lot for high school mathematics; most of us are aware that his "Theorem" is also the basis for trigonometry, and trigonometry is the theoretical background to that most fundamental of sound waves, the sine wave. But that is not even scratching the surface of the work of the Pythagorean School. The man himself, and his own ideas, are only known to us through the writings of his disciples. Yet it does appear that he covered a broad range of subjects and became something of a shining light in all of them. That having been said, however, it is appropriate to admit that the suggestion given, that he and his disciples invented music, is a tad of an overstatement. Nevertheless, short of declaring that the sun shone out of Pythagoras' [fill the blank] on the first morning of creation, he does appear to have been the first to apply a keen, investigative approach, and a mathematically endowed mind, to the study of the acoustics.