Harkleroad Leon - The Math Behind The Music With Cd - Rom

Binding: Multiple Components
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.
Title: The Math Behind The Music With Cd - Rom
Author(s): Harkleroad Leon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521009355
Pages: 158 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 8/7/2006
Series: Outlooks
Category: Mathematics