mathematical music theory

Thank you all for the music software suggestions. I am sorting through all this and trying to get my new studio set up.

On a different note, I cam across an article by one of my favorite mathematical expositors, John Baez, on mathematics in music theory. Some of you may have read it, and some of you may be mentioned in it.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez//week234.html

John Starrett

jdstarrett wrote:

> On a different note, I cam across an article by one of my
> favorite mathematical expositors, John Baez, on
> mathematics in music theory. Some of you may have read
> it, and some of you may be mentioned in it.
> > http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez//week234.html

I saw it around the time. There's plenty of group theory, but not much on the tuning applications, which would be better discussed on tuning-math.

Note that Kyle Gann has since declared himself for the Neo-Riemannians:

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2009/03/so_im_neo-riemannian_who_knew.html

That's quite a good article for explaining how all the theory might be musically useful.

Graham

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Graham Breed <gbreed@...> wrote:
>
> jdstarrett wrote:
>
> > On a different note, I cam across an article by one of my
> > favorite mathematical expositors, John Baez, on
> > mathematics in music theory. Some of you may have read
> > it, and some of you may be mentioned in it.
> >
> > http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez//week234.html
>
> I saw it around the time. There's plenty of group theory,
> but not much on the tuning applications, which would be
> better discussed on tuning-math.
>

Well, application to tuning comes in in a natural way insofar as many of the mathematical models described may have been developed for 12EDO but are not restricted to it - namely application to any equal temperament is often directly possible.

tuning-math would indeed be a good place to discuss these.
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Hans Straub