Music : a mathematical offering / Dave Benson
Analys: Visa analysUtgivning: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007Beskrivning: 411 s. : illISBN:- 0-521-85387-7 (hbk.) :
- 978-0-521-85387-3 (hbk.) :
- 0-521-61999-8 (pbk.) :
- 978-0-521-61999-8 (pbk.) :
- 781.2 22
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- 00A65
Item type | Current library | Call number | Materials specified | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Musik- och teaterbiblioteket Magasin A | B25.145 | 1 | Available | 26201807689 |
1. Waves and harmonics ; 2. Fourier theory ; 3. A mathematician's guide to the orchestra ; 4. Consonance and dissonance ; 5. Scales and temperaments : the fivefold way ; 6. More scales and temperaments ; 7. Digital music ; 8. Synthesis ; 9. Symmetry in music ; Appendix A. Bessel functions ; Appendix B. Equal tempered scales ; Appendix C. Frequency and MIDI chart ; Appendix D. Intervals ; Appendix E. Just, equal and meantone scales compared ; Appendix F. Music theory ; Appendix G. Recordings
Provides a wealth of information to enable the teacher, the student, or the interested amateur to understand, at varying levels of technicality, the real interplay between these two ancient disciplines. The story is long as well as broad and involves physics, biology, psychoacoustics, the history of science, and digital technology
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