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Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals
John Fauvel
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Description for Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals
Paperback. From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and this relationship has fascinated generations. This new in paperback edition of diverse, comprehensive and fully-illustrated papers, authored by leading scholars, links the two fields in a lucid manner that is suitable for students of each subject as well as the general reader. Num Pages: 200 pages, Numerous halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: AV; PB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 189 x 10. Weight in Grams: 384.
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, authored 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.
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, authored 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199298938
SKU
V9780199298938
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Reviews for Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals
An attractive volume that covers almost al of the important aspects of the interplay between mathematics and music.
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