<p>Music is shaped by the science of sound.<br><br>How can music - an artform - have anything to do with science? Yet there are myriad ways in which the two are intertwined, from the basics of music theory and the design of instruments to hi-fi systems and how the brain processes music.<br><br>Science writer Andrew May traces the surprising connections between science and music, from the theory of sound waves to the way musicians use mathematical...