Music and mathematics
Subtitle: from Pythagoras to fractals
By: edited by John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, and Robin Wilson.
Contributors: Fauvel, John.; Flood, Raymond.; Wilson, Robin J.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Music theory -- Mathematics; Musical temperament
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: Tuning and temperament : closing the spiral / Neil Bibby; title: Musical cosmology : Kepler and his readers / J. V. Field; title: Science of musical sound / Charles Taylor; title: Faggot's fretful fiasco / Ian Stewart; title: Helmholtz : combinational tones and consonance / David Fowler; title: Geometry of music / Wilfrid Hodges; title: Ringing the changes : bells and mathematics / Dermot Roaf and Arthur White; title: Composing with numbers : sets, rows and magic squares / Jonathan Cross; title: Microtones and projective planes / Carlton Gamer and Robin Wilson; title: Composing with fractals / Robert Sherlaw Johnson.