Playing Mathematics and Doing Music

Year: 2005 Authors: John Belcher

Core claim

Mathematical structures such as symmetry, congruences, set mappings, and linear transformations can be translated into music to create meaningful aural models.

Topics

pattern making, symmetry, rhythmic cycles, aural mapping, music-math translation

Domains

number theory, congruence arithmetic, Chinese Remainder Theorem, set theory, linear transformations, music composition, rhythm, African drumming

Methods

pattern analysis, cyclic layering, functional mapping, analogical translation, multidimensional modeling

Media

rhythmic cycles, number sequences, Western octave, Atsimewu drum vocabulary

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