A Musical Suite Based on the Platonic Solids

Year: 2002 Authors: W. Douglas Maurer

Core claim

A pleasing violin suite can be systematically composed from Platonic solids by mapping notes, measures, time signatures, and movement structure to their faces, edges, and vertices.

Topics

Platonic solids, music composition, geometry-to-music mapping, unaccompanied violin, musical structure

Domains

polyhedra, combinatorics, graph-like adjacency, music composition, music theory, notation, sound art

Methods

structural mapping, measure duplication, time-signature assignment, note assignment

Media

violin, sheet music, musical notation software

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