Explores math-related aspects of music, including tuning systems, aleatoric and twelve-tone music, and change ringing and contradancing.
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The Math Behind the Music (Outlooks)
August 7, 2006, Cambridge University Press
Paperback
in English
- Pap/Cdr edition
0521009359 9780521009355
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The Math Behind the Music (Outlooks)
August 14, 2006, Cambridge University Press
Hardcover
in English
- Har/Cdr edition
0521810957 9780521810951
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Book Details
First Sentence
"When I mention to someone my work on a book about mathematics and music, I tend to get one of two responses: "Yeah, they really are a lot alike, aren't they?""
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Mathematics and Music, a Duet
2. Pitch: The Ground of usic
3. Tuning Up
4. How to Vary a Theme Mathematically
5. Bells and Groups
6. Music by Chance
7. Pattern, Pattern, Pattern
8. Sight Meets Sound
9. How Not to Mix Mathematics and Music
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Index
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