Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 240 mm
Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 240 mm
ISBN: 978-0-19-851187-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Key Features:
- Comprehensive coverage of the fascinating relationship between mathematics and music
- Extensively illustrated
- Written by leading scholars
- Suitable for a wide-ranging readership
Description:
From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and the relationship between mathematics and music has fascinated generations. This collection of wide ranging, comprehensive and fully-illustrated papers, written by leading scholars, presents the link between these two subjects in a lucid manner that is suitable for students of both subjects, as well as the general reader with an interest in music. Physical, theoretical, physiological, acoustic, compositional, and analytical relationships between mathematics and music are unfolded and explored with focus on tuning and temperament, the mathematics of sound, bell-ringing and modern compositional techniques.
Contents:
Preface
Introduction Susan Wollenberg: Mathematics and Music: an overview
Part I Mathematics and Music Through History
Neil Bibby: Tuning and temperament: closing the spiral
J.V. Field: Musical cosmology: Kepler and his readers
Part II The Mathematics of Musical Sound
Charles Taylor: The science of musical sound
Ian Stewart: Faggot's fretful blunder
David Fowler: Helmholtz: combinational tones and consonance
Part III Mathematical Structure in Music
Wilfrid Hodges: Musical frieze patterns
Dermot Roaf and Art White: Ringing the changes: bells and mathematics
Jonathon Cross: Composing with numbers: sets, rows and magic squares
Part IV Recent Developments
Carlton Gramer & Robin Wilson: Microtones and projective planes
Robert Sherlaw Johnson: Composing with fractals
Bibliography
Competition:
Assayag, Feichtinger & Rodrigues: Mathematics and Music, Springer. 2002, £45.50
Comments: 288 pages, conference proceedings, higher mathematical level.
RELATED OUP TITLES:
Field, J. V. The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance, 1997,£27.00
Cook, Nicholas Music: A Very Short Introduction, 2000, £6.99
Latham, Alison The Oxford Companion to Music, 2002, £35.00
Zielgruppe
Suitable for students of both mathematics and music, as well as the general reader with an interest in music
