The Math Behind the Music with CD-ROM Mixed media product
by Leon Harkleroad
Part of the Outlooks series
Mixed media product
Description
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 twentieth century and many other topics involving mathematical ideas from probability theory to Fourier series to group theory.
He also relates some cautionary tales of misguided attempts to mix music and mathematics.
Both the mathematical and the musical concepts are described in an elementary way, making the book accessible to general readers as well as to mathematicians and musicians of all levels. The book is accompanied by an audio CD of musical examples.
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:158 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/08/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521009355
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:158 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/08/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521009355
