Was music invented by composers or does it fundamentally declare design? Read on to find out some fascinating evidences!

The first reference to music in the Bible, chronologically, is in Job 38:7. God asked Job where he was before He made the world, “When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” Since God sings (Zephaniah 3:17) and Jesus sang (Matt 26:30), we know He made music long before He made the world and we would expect to find His fingerprint on this area of creation as well. The principles of music are not man-made; instead, man has discovered them and applied them to make good music, or violated them to make bad music.
Leonard Bernstein pointed out that all music has a common origin, based on the pentatonic scale C, D, E, G, and A. This scale is also found on the black keys of the piano. Songs such as “Amazing Grace” and “Brethren, We Have Met to Worship” are just variations of these five notes. But music from other lands and even hidden jungle tribes also uses the same pentatonic scale.
Here is another example of God’s fingerprint in music. Start with middle C on the piano and play the triad C, E, G. The frequencies of these notes are 264 htz, 330 htz, and 386 htz respectively (hertz = cycles per second). Notice each one is exactly 66 htz greater than the note before it. An octive always has a hertz ratio of 2:1. So the C below middle C would have half its frequency or 132 htz. Two notes are in harmony when the ratio of their frequencies is simplest. Thus, for C and E, their ratio is 264/330 or 4/5 and are in harmony. However, the ratio of C to D is 262/294 and its simplest expression is 131/147. These notes are in dissonance. Who do you suppose invented this mathematical orderliness in music?
In these and a thousand other ways music shows the evidence of design and thus declares creation by a Designer. Next week we will see an example of how this is also true in Mathematics.