Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg 2017031417, 9780691176901

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Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg
2017031417, 9780691176901

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Eli Maor

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
Preface
1 Prologue: A World in Crisis
2 String Theory, 500 BCE
SIDEBAR A. It’s All about Nomenclature
3 Enlightenment
4 The Great String Debate, 1730–1780
SIDEBAR B. The Slinky
5 A Most Precious Gift
6 Musical Temperament
SIDEBAR C. Music for the Record Books: The Lowest, the Longest, the Oldest, and the Weirdest
7 Musical Gadgets: The Tuning Fork and the Metronome
8 Rhythm, Meter, and Metric
9 Frames of Reference: Where Am I?
SIDEBAR D. Musical Hierarchies
10 Relativistic Music
11 Aftermath
SIDEBAR E. The Bernoulli
12 The Last Pythagoreans
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index

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