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Music And Mathematics:

From Pythagoras to Fractals
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John. Fauvel, Raymond. Flood, Robin James Wilson
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Oxford University Press, 2006 - Mathematics - 189 pages
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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Maurice Sendak, a lover of Mozart, said he can't read music at all, but that gives him a greater appreciation for the beauty of Mozart's manuscripts than a musician can have. It's that way for me with ... Read full review

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as a math prof. working on some music/math projects i thought this was a very good collection of articles. many get into a nice amount of mathematical depth, you may need to get out some pencil and ... Read full review

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an overview
1
closing the spiral
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Kepler and his readers
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The science of musical sound
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Faggots fretful fiasco
61
combinational tones and consonance
77
The geometry of music
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bells and mathematics
113
sets rows
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Microtones and projective planes
149
Composing with fractals
163
Notes on contributors
173
Acknowledgements
183
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About the author (2006)

John Fauvel is formerly of the Open University, UK. Raymond Flood is in the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University. Robin Wilson is at Keble College, Oxford University.

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