The Geometry of Music
18Apr08
The Telegraph reports that three music professors - Clifton Callender at Florida State University, Ian Quinn at Yale University, and Dmitri Tymoczko at Princeton University - have devised a new way of analyzing and categorizing music to reduce musical works to their mathematical essence. The trio has outlined a method called “geometrical music theory” that [...]
The Geometry Of Music
08Mar08
Mathtrek has an interesting post that explores the geometry of music.
According to Dmitri Tymoczko, a composer and music theorist at Princeton University…to grasp the true structure of music, we need to understand the geometry of hyperdimensional objects.
Tymoczko compares the structure of music to the shape of a rock face that a rock-climber [...]
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