Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
Eli Maor • Princeton University Press • ISBN-13 978‑1400889891
Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
Eli Maor • Princeton University Press
ISBN-10: 1400889898 · ISBN-13: 978‑1400889891 · 2018
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Eli Maor explores the profound historical intersection between musical harmony and mathematical theory, tracing the development of acoustic science from the Pythagorean discovery of numerical ratios to the complex atonal structures of the twentieth century.
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