On Musical Space and Combinatorics: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives in Music Theory

Year: 2000 Authors: Catherine Nolan

Core claim

Combinatorics provides a foundational mathematical framework for modeling musical relations and spatial metaphors across historical and modern music theory.

Topics

musical space, combinatorics, music theory, pitch-class sets

Domains

enumeration, permutations, partitions, set theory, music theory, composition, historical musicology

Methods

historical survey, comparative analysis, combinatorial modeling

Media

treatises, circular diagrams, pitch-class tables

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