Mathematics and Music : A Diderot Mathematical Forum by Manuel Pedro Ferreira (auth.), Gerard Assayag, Hans Georg

By Manuel Pedro Ferreira (auth.), Gerard Assayag, Hans Georg Feichtinger, Jose Francisco Rodrigues (eds.)

In Western Civilization arithmetic and song have a protracted and engaging heritage in universal, with a number of interactions, ordinarily linked to the identify of Pythagoras but additionally with an important variety of different mathematicians, like Leibniz, for example. Mathematical types are available for the majority degrees of musical actions from composition to sound construction by means of conventional tools or by means of electronic potential. sleek track idea has been incorporating increasingly more mathematical content material over the past a long time. This publication bargains a trip into fresh paintings pertaining to track and arithmetic. It features a huge number of articles, protecting the historic elements, the impression of common sense and mathematical inspiration in composition, conception and figuring out of tune and the computational facets of musical sound processing. The authors illustrate the wealthy and deep interactions that exist among arithmetic and Music.

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Steiner, 1972; Serge Gut, "La notion de consonance chez les theoriciens du Moyen Age", Acta musicologica, 48 (1976), pp. 20-44; Michel Huglo, "La notation franconienne. 123132 [125-26]. 128-32; Ars Nova Magistri Philippi de Vitriaco, ed. G. , n. : American Institute of Musicology, 1964 [CSM, 8]; Ernest H. Sanders, "Vitry, Philippe de", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie, London: Macmillan, 1980, vol. 22-28. P. Ferreira the copying of his work, he would be nowadays as famous as the younger Guillaume de Machaut.

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Ono Fig. 2. ,v.. 2 The Sounding Algebra 31 To my knowledge, no other author ever calculated - without a computer, of course - a greater factorial. Mersenne listed the twenty-four different songs with four notes, the seventy-two different songs of three types of songs, consisting of four different notes, respectively, the sevenhundred-twenty different songs with six notes. Considering fourths like ut, re, mi, fa or re, mi, fa, sol or mi, fa, sol, la he enumerated the possible permutations in order to discuss which song might be considered as better or more pleasant or more agreeable.

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