Mathematics and Music Composition, Perception, and Performance

Summary

The connections between mathematics and music to back thousands of years. This text explores the many links between mathematics and different genres of music. It requires only high school mathematics. The new edition offers many updates, including several new sections. The authors offer much for mathematics and music students alike.

Product details

• Authors: James S. (University of Wisconsin Walker, James S. Walker, Gary Don, Walker James S.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 13.09.2019
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics
• EAN: 9781138584945
• ISBN: 978-1-138-58494-5
• Pages: 398
• Subjects: MATHEMATICS / General, SCIENCE / Physics / General, Mathematics, Physics, Audio Signal Processing, Fundamental frequency, Tones, Diatonic scale, Tuning fork, Minor chord, music theory pedagogy, diatonic transformations, pitch class theory, spectrogram analysis, cyclic rhythm patterns, mathematical models for musical analysis, harmonic oscillators, Pure Tone, Seventh Chord, Pitch Classes, granular synthesis, Phase Vocoding, Pentatonic Major Scale, Hexatonic Scale, Palindrome Symmetry, Half Steps, Sine Coefficients, Chordal Spine, Viderunt Omnes, Amplitude Estimators, Clef Staff, Bass Clef Staff