Mathematics and Music: Composition, Perception, and Performance - Hardcover

Walker, James S. (University Of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, USA); Don, Gary W. (University Of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, USA)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138584940 ISBN 13: 9781138584945

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Mathematics and Music: Composition, Perception, and Performance, Second Edition includes many new sections and more consistent expectations of a student’s experience. The new edition of this popular text is more accessible for students with limited musical backgrounds and only high school mathematics is required.

The new edition includes more illustrations than the previous one and the added sections deal with the XronoMorph rhythm generator, musical composition, and analyzing personal performance.

The text teaches the basics of reading music, explaining how various patterns in music can be described with mathematics, providing mathematical explanations for musical scales, harmony, and rhythm. The book gives students a deeper appreciation showing how music is informed by both its mathematical and aesthetic structures.

Highlights of the Second Edition:

Now updated for more consistent expectations of students’ backgrounds

More accessible for students with limited musical backgrounds

Full-color presentation

Includes more thorough coverage of spectrograms for analyzing recorded music

Provides a basic introduction to reading music

Features new coverage of building and evaluating rhythms

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James S. Walker holds a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago, advised by Louis L. Pennisi. He is a Professor and teaches in the Mathematics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He has published papers on topics in Fourier analysis, wavelet analysis, logic, image compression, image denoising, and mathematics & music.

Gary W. Don

is a professor of music theory at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He teaches freshman and sophomore theory and aural skills, and upper-division theory courses. Additionally, he holds a doctorate in music theory from the University of Washington, and taught theory and aural skills at Skidmore College in New York before joining the UWEC faculty.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138584940
• ISBN 13: 9781138584945
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 398
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: CRC Press; https://www.routledge-ny.com; ; 6000 BROKEN SOUND PARKWAY, NW SUITE 300; BOCA RATON; FL; 33487; USA
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