Math Behind the Music

Name: Math Behind the Music
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ISBN: 9780521009355

ISBN-10: 0521009359

ISBN-13: 9780521009355

Edition: 2003

Authors: Leon Harkleroad, John Barrow, Fan Chung, Ingrid Daubechies

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Mathematics has been used for centuries to describe, analyze, and create music. In this book, Leon Harkleroad explores the math related aspects of music from its acoustical bases to compositional techniques to music criticism, touching on - overtones, scales, and tuning systems - the musical dice game attributed to Mozart and Haydn - the several-hundred-year-old style of bell-playing known as ringing the changes - the twelve-tone school of composition that strongly influenced music throughout the 20th century and many other topics involving mathematical ideas from probability theory to Fouries series to group theory. He also relates some cautionary tales of misguided attempts to mix music…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/7/2006
Pages: 158
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.682

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Preface


Acknowledgments



Mathematics and Music, a Duet



Pitch: The Ground of Music



Tuning Up



How to Vary a Theme Mathematically



Bells and Groups



Music by Chance



Pattern, Pattern, Pattern



Sight Meets Sound



How NOT to Mix Mathematics and Music


Bibliography


Contents of the CD


Illustration Credits


Index