How Music and Mathematics Relate
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Twelve lectures (45 minutes each).
Disc 1. Overtones : symphony in a single note -- Disc 2. Timbre : why each instrument sounds different -- Disc 3. Pitch and auditory illusions -- Disc 4. How scales are constructed -- Disc 5. How scale tunings and composition coevolved -- Disc 6. Dissonance and piano tuning -- Disc 7. Rhythm : from numbers to patterns -- Disc 8. Transformations and symmetry -- Disc 9. Self-reference from Bach to Gödel -- Disc 10. Composing with math : classical to avant-garde -- Disc 11. The digital delivery of music -- Disc 12. Math, music, and the mind.
Lecturer: David Kung, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
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Great courses. Science & mathematics.
PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 12 sound discs (9 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 112 p. ; 19 cm).
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781598039207
1598039202
SUBJECTS
Music -- Mathematics.
Music theory.
Mathematics.