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• Title:Music and mathematics : from Pythagoras to fractals / edited by John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, and Robin Wilson.
  
• ISBN:0198511876
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
  
• Physical Description:189 p. : ill., music ; 26 cm.
  
• Links:Table of contents
  

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  • Location:MUSIC LIBRARY, SML
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  • Call Number: ML3800 M987 F2
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 177-182) and index.
  
• Contents:Tuning and temperament : closing the spiral / Neil Bibby -- Musical cosmology : Kepler and his readers / J. V. Field -- Science of musical sound / Charles Taylor -- Faggot's fretful fiasco / Ian Stewart -- Helmholtz : combinational tones and consonance / David Fowler -- Geometry of music / Wilfrid Hodges -- Ringing the changes : bells and mathematics / Dermot Roaf and Arthur White -- Composing with numbers : sets, rows and magic squares / Jonathan Cross -- Microtones and projective planes / Carlton Gamer and Robin Wilson -- Composing with fractals / Robert Sherlaw Johnson.
  
• Subjects:Music theory--Mathematics.
  Musical temperament.
  
• Also listed under:Fauvel, John.
  Flood, Raymond.
  Wilson, Robin J.