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Music: A Mathematical Offering (2006)
- ghosthamlet 7y agoPdf is here: https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/MATH379/1.%20%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%B1/DaveBenson.pdf https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/MATH379/1.%2...
- mikorym 7y agoHas it not been updated since 2008? The intro suggests it has been; web searches suggest it has not.
- codegladiator 7y agoCorrect, its not been updated though the book says it would probably have been updated. I found the link to the new home page of the author: https://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/d.j.benson/pages/ https://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/d.j.benson/pages/ which links to the same version of the book.
- enriquto 7y agoGod, how much I love these hand-written html pages. They send a powerful message that the writing there is very serious, interesting, and down to business. Just like a beautiful LaTeX formatting for a paper.
- ianai 7y agoAgreed, no “click through to see the top ten” here.
- mkesper 7y agoYou are using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0. You are wearing red. What?
- johnr2 7y ago'This website does not put pieces of poo disingenuously called "cookies" on your computer.' This made me laugh.
- foobar_ 7y agoMusic has little to do with math. The math is useful in measuring things and developing the tools but basically, music is about emotional expressivity.
- TheOtherHobbes 7y agoTrue. Math nerds get excited by the ratios, roots, and groups, but all of that is a rabbit hole - useful for DSP code, but it will do nothing to help you write memorable music.
- jimhefferon 7y agoThe book does not assert that to write memorable music you only need mathematics.
- johnr2 7y agoKnowing how to count beats and bars can be helpful when writing music, as can knowing how string lengths are related to notes when playing a stringed instrument.
- johnr2 7y ago> Music has little to do with math. As a musician (and audio engineer) I disagree. You don't need to think about math while writing or playing music, just like you don't need to think about physics when riding a bike, but that doesn't mean it has little to do with it.
- coldtea 7y agoThe kind of math musicians talk about are elementary ratios that concern the relationships between tones and between frequencies, nothing to write home about. And even the latter have little application to composition. You can be a great musician and even original songwriter and not know any math (or even the names of chords for that matter) at all. And that's even in folk -- it's even less so in electronic music and other genres.
- fxfan 7y agoquestions: 1) Is it legal? 2) WHere's the PDF?
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- tokai 7y agoWhat a great website.
- jwiesenborn 7y agoMusic has everything to do with mathematics. It’s all waves just like y = sin(x). Digital music in particular has much in common with calculus in the piecewise manner that discrete samples approximate analog waves. I wrote a program in vanilla JS to demonstrate this idea. It converts XML-formatted music into mathematical terms, and then encodes it into pulse code modulation for playback. Feel free to peek at dietpumpkinmachine.com if you don't mind the sloppy code.
- schemathings 7y ago"David J. Benson is a 6th Century Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen." ? Piqued my curiosity!