Advice on high school thesis

...the good Pythagoras?

Dovrebbe esserci già dentro molto e con poche integrazioni secondo me ci metti dentro tutto

Mmmmm, then the connecting element would no longer be time but Pythagoras... I would prefer to talk about a topic related to time for each subject.

True the time

I was thinking about the monochord ... let me think about it for a moment

Anyway, additive rhythms can also help and we project ourselves far into the "time"

Yes, but there is no music among the subjects... The monochord, it could have taken away music, mathematics, physics from us, but I see that being difficult.

Other ideas?

I would say in addition to Pythagoras: Philosophy, Geogr. Astronomical, History

Of course, languages (including Latin) would be out ...

Question, but what do you mean by tempo? Musical tempo or something else? Since you say....

TheSimon wrote:

Yes, but there is no music among the subjects...

Temporal dimension...

TheSimon wrote:

Hi everyone, a little help please...

My cousin asked me for help defining an outline for his scientific high school thesis. He would like to use "time" as the connecting element.

While I found no difficulty in suggesting scientific topics, I am quite uncertain regarding the humanities.

my specialty ;-)

Philosophy

Bergson, without a doubt, but also Husserl and his definition of "temporal objects". Both reflections are linkable to music. Bergson, with his concept of duration, will provide a dimension for all modern investigations into listening. Husserl, by defining temporal objects, gives a definition of sound that is an object "in" time which itself has a duration.

Latin

Seneca speaks a lot about time, but so does Saint Augustine, with his discussions on eternity (and on music). At worst, one can always talk about metric scans, prosody, or rather the measurement of time.

Physics

here it is enough to talk about waves and duration. You will know more than I do.

Mathematics

here it is more complex... the best thing is to eliminate mathematics from the thesis.

Astron. Geogr.

rotations, revolutions and movements of the spheres. Which have to do with music and with the measurement of time.

Italian

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English

obligatory, along with Bergson, the interior monologue and the novelistic techniques relating to duration and the different times of the fabula and the plot. Gadda in Italian, Joyce and Virginia Woolf in English.

Art

it would be interesting if he brought part of Monet's Rouen Cathedral series. There are 50 paintings of the cathedral at different parts of the day and year. Color as a function of time is a very modern and innovative thought, and if he goes there with about ten beautiful prints, he will make a hell of an impression.

History

the usual passepartout: definition of the short century, why segmenting into eras causes problems for historians, and things like that.

Anyway, the problem with such a thesis is that it MUST have a little chapter dedicated to music. And if he wants to talk about time and music, and do so in a way that fits into the fifth-year curriculum (scientific high school I assume), then he must go for the '900... and as you well know, that is not an easy musical topic.

The more I write, the more I think it would be intriguing not to talk about time "in general" (at least not in music, Latin, and Italian) but about temporal scans, i.e., RHYTHM. A thesis on rhythm would be very lovely and original. He could bring in the Futurists in Italian or poetry for music, or he could bring in Carducci and his studies on Greek and Latin meters. He could talk about Latin prosody or simply bring some Latin poems, reading them in meter, or he could bring Boethius' De Musica and musical treatises, which often spoke of prosody. In history, he could talk about the battles for rights and the role of rock and blues music in these situations (it's a bit of a stretch, but the Beatles or Woodstock are nice topics; he could even talk about Reggae if he wanted). For philosophy, there is always Bergson and Husserl, but if he wants, I can look for something by Boulez that reflects on the difference between striated time and amorphous time. He could also talk about Entrainment; I wrote about it recently, regarding the "rhythmic" tendencies of our body.

Thank you Claudio, a very precious contribution. Regarding physics, I think it would be more interesting to talk about the Big Bang by connecting the discussion to particle accelerators, which act somewhat like a "time machine" to discover the particles immediately following the Big Bang that contributed to the formation of the universe. Still speaking of time, in mathematics one could talk about harmonic analysis, therefore everything concerning Fourier and Laplace series and transforms, and the transition from the time domain to the frequency domain. Honestly, I am very unversed in philosophy and literature, and I mostly needed support in these primarily humanities subjects. Thanks again for the help...

moreover, I was thinking that Saint Augustine's reflections on time can lead to interesting reflections on the Divine Comedy. By making a journey into the afterlife, Dante (the character) confronts the problem of experiencing otherworldly time while having a human consciousness. This theme is addressed in good Italian literature manuals; I don't remember it perfectly, but since Augustine questions time very deeply as a "creature" of God and on the dynamic perception of time by humans, it would be extremely interesting to talk about it. And there are VERY FEW high school graduates who manage to include pieces of the Divine Comedy in their final thesis.

The reference to the Divine Comedy is very interesting. Believe it or not, it had already struck and fascinated me greatly in high school. I will certainly propose this solution as well. Thank you...