The Math Behind the Music [With CDROM]

Mathematics has been used for centuries to describe, analyze, and create music. In this book, Leon Harkleroad explores the math related aspects of music from its acoustical bases to compositional techniques to music criticism, touching on – overtones, scales, and tuning systems – the musical dice game attributed to Mozart and Haydn – the several-hundred-year-old style of bell-playing known as ringing the changes – the twelve-tone school of composition…