Microtonality And The Tuning Systems Of Erv Wilson

Author : Terumi Narushima
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317513436
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson written by Terumi Narushima and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson. It is the first publication to offer a broad discussion of this influential theorist whose innovations have far-reaching ramifications for microtonal tuning systems. This study addresses the breadth and complexity of Wilson’s work by focusing on his microtonal keyboard designs as a means to investigate his tuning concepts and their practical applications. Narushima examines materials ranging from historical and experimental tunings to instrument design, as well as musical applications of mathematical theories and multidimensional geometry. The volume provides an analysis of some of Wilson’s most significant theoretical ideas, including the Scale Tree, Moments of Symmetry, Constant Structures, and Combination-Product Sets. These theories offer ways to conceptualize musical scales as patterns with structural integrity and whose shapes can be altered to produce infinitely varying forms. The book shows how these structural properties can be used to map scales onto a microtonal keyboard by providing step-by-step guidelines and clearly illustrated examples. Most importantly, it brings together theoretical and practical methods of tuning to enable composers, performers, and instrument designers to explore previously uncharted areas of microtonality, making a significant contribution to the fields of music theory, composition and music technology.

Author : John H. Chalmers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divisions of the Tetrachord written by John H. Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kyle Gann
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252051424
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arithmetic of Listening written by Kyle Gann and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tuning is the secret lens through which the history of music falls into focus," says Kyle Gann. Yet in Western circles, no other musical issue is so ignored, so taken for granted, so shoved into the corners of musical discourse. A classroom essential and an invaluable reference, The Arithmetic of Listening offers beginners the grounding in music theory necessary to find their own way into microtonality and the places it may take them. Moving from ancient Greece to the present, Kyle Gann delves into the infinite tunings available to any musician who feels straitjacketed by obedience to standardized Western European tuning. He introduces the concept of the harmonic series and demonstrates its relationship to equal-tempered and well-tempered tuning. He also explores recent experimental tuning models that exploit smaller intervals between pitches to create new sounds and harmonies. Systematic and accessible, The Arithmetic of Listening provides a much-needed primer for the wide range of tuning systems that have informed Western music. Audio examples demonstrating the musical ideas in The Arithmetic of Listening can be found at: https://www.kylegann.com/Arithmetic.html

Author : Roger Moseley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520291247
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keys to Play written by Roger Moseley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book’s diverse objects of inquiry—from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles—enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard’s topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to Play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new.

Author : Dave Benson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521853877
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music: A Mathematical Offering written by Dave Benson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interaction between music and mathematics including harmony, symmetry, digital music and perception of sound.

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408102579
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anagram Solver written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.

Author : Frank J. Malina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinetic Art: Theory and Practice written by Frank J. Malina and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Franck Jedrzejewski
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811284385
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Compendium Of Musical Mathematics written by Franck Jedrzejewski and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to provide a concise introduction to the mathematical theory of music, opening each chapter to the most recent research. Despite the complexity of some sections, the book can be read by a large audience. Many examples illustrate the concepts introduced. The book is divided into 9 chapters.In the first chapter, we tackle the question of the classification of chords and scales. Chapter 2 is a mathematical presentation of David Lewin's Generalized Interval Systems. Chapter 3 offers a new theory of diatonicity in equal-tempered universes. Chapter 4 presents the Neo-Riemannian theories based on the work of David Lewin, Richard Cohn and Henry Klumpenhouwer. Chapter 5 is devoted to the application of word combinatorics to music. Chapter 6 studies the rhythmic canons and the tessellation of the line. Chapter 7 is devoted to serial knots. Chapter 8 presents combinatorial designs and their applications to music. The last chapter, chapter 9, is dedicated to the study of tuning systems.

Author : Thomas Noll
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031606388
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematics and Computation in Music written by Thomas Noll and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cris Forster
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811874076
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Mathematics written by Cris Forster and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical Mathematics is the definitive tome for the adventurous musician. Integrating mathematics, music history, and hands-on experience, this volume serves as a comprehensive guide to the tunings and scales of acoustic instruments from around the world. Author, composer, and builder Cris Forster illuminates the mathematical principles of acoustic music, offering practical information and new discoveries about both traditional and innovative instruments.With this knowledge readers can improve, or begin to build, their own instruments inspired by Forster's creationsshown in 16 color plates. For those ready to step outside musical conventions and those whose curiosity about the science of sound is never satisfied, Musical Mathematics is the map to a new musical world.