Music in 432 Hertz just means that the middle A of the piano is tuned to 432 Hz.
The promise…
- A 432 is the Divine A,
- Is spiritual music,
- It helps you meditate and relax,
- It realigns your chakras,
- It repairs your DNA,
- It opens your third eye,
- Is the music of nature, birds sing in 432,
- Orthodox monks sing in 432,
- Children scream in 432,
- Human speech is in 432,
- Plants grow faster when listening to music in 432,
- Fibonacci sequence, precession of the equinoxes, Schumann resonance...
The logic
Does this make sense?
NO. If you've followed the previous paragraphs, you've understood the insignificance of talking about frequencies for notes.
Music is not made of frequencies. It is made of INTERVALS.
- The pitch of a sound is an absolute value expressed as a frequency in Hz.
- The pitch of a note is a value relative to another note. It measures the interval, or space, or relationship between sounds. In harmonic scales, this interval is expressed as a ratio. In the tempered scale, it's expressed in cents.
So whether A is tuned to 440 Hz, 432 Hz or 412 Hz... we can safely say that it makes no difference to the beauty and harmonizing effect of music.
It is the harmony binding the notes together that "soothes the soul", not the absolute frequency of the notes.
What's all the fuss about A 432 Hz?
Origins
Joseph Sauveur (1653-1716), a French acoustics researcher submitted to the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1713, the "philosophical" principle of octaves of 1 as the basis of a frequency for the study of acoustic physics phenomena.
Joseph Sauveur's frequencies are: 1-2-3-4-8-16-32-64-128-256...
Based on this series of frequencies he proposed a tuning fork for the mifddle C at 256 Hz.
Note that in his period, frequencies were not counted in Hertz but in cycles per second, a measurement that was still imprecise.
He didn't create this tuning fork himself, but inspired it.
By "philosophical" tuning fork he meant "scientific", in the sense of "used by scientists in their acoustic research".
The sole purpose of using 1 Hz as the base frequency is to simplify calculations.
Why is attributing "sacred" or "magical" properties to the 432 Hz frequency just a pipe dream?
- The Hertz or cycle per second is not a natural, universal or cosmic unit of measurement. The second is a human unit, a convention.
- Yes it is true that C 256 Hz gives A 432 Hz, but it is only true in the Pythagorean scale, where the ratio A / C = 27/16 (256 * 27/16 = 432). But nobody uses the Pythagorean scale. What to say of the equal tempered scale where no interval between notes is calculated as a ratio?
So it's all a pipe dream.
To the 432 fans: No frequency in nature (heart, brain waves, Schumann resonance...) is at 432 Hz or one of its octaves.
As for Giuseppe Verdi, since LA 432 Hz is also called Verdi's tuning fork, if he indicated that 432 Hz would be slightly better for orchestras, it was firstly to lower the tuning fork of the time, much too high, which was dangerously damaging to the vocal chords of the singers, and secondly for mathematical simplicity.
In fact, he joined the French "diapason normal" at 435 Hz, his main interest being to have a standard pitch, as he writes: "For my part, I would like a single pitch to be adopted by the entire musical universe. The language of music is universal; so why should the note called A in Paris or Milan become B flat in Rome?"
On the power of frequencies
Yes, each frequency has specific properties. Yes, you can heal or kill with frequencies.
But we're here talking about SOUND, not music.
- A sound is a frequency
- Music is a play on harmonics
If you're certain that a given sound frequency - 432 Hz, for example - will stimulate certain amino acids and help your tomatoes grow, then why not play that frequency continuously, rather than playing them Pachelbel's Canon, where they'll only hear your super A at 432 Hz from time to time?
You'll also avoid polluting them with a non-harmonic tempered scale.
ADVICE TO MUSICIANS
Bertrand Canac