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Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals

By Raymond Flood , Robin Wilson , John Fauvel

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2006
ISBN
0199298939, 9780199298938
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8157680 bytes)
Pages
200\200
Time added
2013-12-14 00:00:08

Description

From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and the relationship between mathematics and music has fascinated generations. This collection of wide ranging, comprehensive and fully-illustrated papers, authorized by leading scholars, presents the link between these two subjects in a lucid manner that is suitable for students of both subjects, as well as the general reader with an interest in music. Physical, theoretical, physiological, acoustic, compositional and analytical relationships between mathematics and music are unfolded and explored with focus on tuning and temperament, the mathematics of sound, bell-ringing and modern compositional techniques.

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