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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.

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Author:   John Fauvel (Formerly of the Open University, UK) ,  Raymond Flood (Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University) ,  Robin Wilson (Keble College, Oxford University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9780199298938

ISBN 10:   0199298939
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   06 July 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Susan Wollenberg: Music and mathematics: an overview Part I: Music and mathematics through history 1: Neil Bibby: Tuning and temperament: closing the spiral 2: J.V. Field: Musical cosmology: Kepler and his readers Part II: The mathematics of musical sound 3: Charles Taylor: The science of musical sound 4: Ian Stewart: Faggot's fretful blunder 5: David Fowler: Helmholtz: combinational tones and consonance Part III: Mathematical structure in music 6: Wilfrid Hodges: Musical frieze patterns 7: Dermot Roaf and Arthur White: Ringing the changes: bells and mathematics 8: Jonathan Cross: Composing with numbers: sets, rows and magic squares Part IV: The composer speaks 9: Carlton Gamer & Robin Wilson: Microtones and projective planes 10: Robert Sherlaw Johnson: Composing with fractals Notes on contributors Notes, references, and further reading Acknowledgements Index

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An attractive volume that covers almost al of the important aspects of the interplay between mathematics and music. * Ehrhard Behrends, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol 28, 3 *

An attractive volume that covers almost al of the important aspects of the interplay between mathematics and music. Ehrhard Behrends, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol 28, 3

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