Titre:
Music by the numbers : from Pythagoras to Schoenberg
Auteur:
PUBDATE:
2018
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Description matérielle:
xvii, 155 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 23 cm
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9780691176901
Résumé:
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century.
Table des matières:
Prologue: A world in crisis -- String theory, 500 BCE -- Sidebar A. It's all about nomenclature -- Enlightenment -- The great string debate, 1730-1780 -- Sidebar B. The Slinky -- A most precious gift -- Musical temperament -- Sidebar C. Music for the record books: the lowest, the longest, the oldest, and the weirdest -- Musical gadgets: the tuning fork and the metronome -- Rhythm, meter, and metric -- Frames of reference: where am I? -- Sidebar D. Musical hierarchies -- Relativistic music -- Aftermath -- Sidebar E. The Bernoulli -- The last Pythagoreans.
LANGUAGE:
Anglais
