| Description |
xiv, 143 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.). |
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Outlooks |
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Outlooks.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-134) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Mathematics and music, a duet -- 2. Pitch : the ground of music -- 3. Tuning up -- 4. How to vary a theme mathematically -- 5. Bells and groups -- 6. Music by chance -- 7. Pattern, pattern, pattern -- 8. Sight meets sound -- 9. How not to mix mathematics and music -- Bibliography -- Contents of the CD -- Illustration credits -- Index. |
| Summary |
"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 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."--Publisher description. |
| Subject |
Music in mathematics education.
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
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Music theory -- Mathematics.
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Music -- Acoustics and physics.
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Pattern formation (Physical sciences)
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Composition (Music)
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Recreações matemáticas.
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Mathematik.
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Musiktheorie.
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Composition (Music) (OCoLC)fst00871761
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst01012236
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Music -- Acoustics and physics.
(OCoLC)fst01030272
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Music in mathematics education. (OCoLC)fst01737706
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Music theory -- Mathematics.
(OCoLC)fst01030626
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Pattern formation (Physical sciences) (OCoLC)fst01055247
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| ISBN |
0521810957 |
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0521009359 (paperback) |
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9780521810951 |
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9780521009355 |
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