The mathematics of music and art / Arturo Portnoy.
"This book explores the relationships between music, the sciences, and mathematics, both ancient and modern, with a focus on the big picture for a general audience as opposed to delving into very technical details. The language of music is deciphered through the language of mathematics. Readers...
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| Language: | English |
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2023.
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| Series: | Synthesis lectures on mathematics & statistics (Springer (Firm))
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| Online Access: | Springer Nature Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0) eBook Collection 2023 |
Table of Contents:
- Preliminaries
- The Pigeonhole Principle
- Continued Fractions
- Pythagoras and Music
- Temperaments of the Scale
- Patterns in Music
- Analysis and Synthesis of Music
- Beats, Resonance, and Tuning
- Digital Music and Information
- Last Thoughts.