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Music and mathematics : from Pythagoras to fractals
Title
Music and mathematics : from Pythagoras to fractals / edited by John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, and Robin Wilson.
ISBN
0198511876
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Physical Description
189 p. : ill., music ; 26 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 11, 2003
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-182) and index.
Contents
Tuning and temperament : closing the spiral / Neil Bibby
Musical cosmology : Kepler and his readers / J. V. Field
Science of musical sound / Charles Taylor
Faggot's fretful fiasco / Ian Stewart
Helmholtz : combinational tones and consonance / David Fowler
Geometry of music / Wilfrid Hodges
Ringing the changes : bells and mathematics / Dermot Roaf and Arthur White
Composing with numbers : sets, rows and magic squares / Jonathan Cross
Microtones and projective planes / Carlton Gamer and Robin Wilson
Composing with fractals / Robert Sherlaw Johnson.
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