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How music and mathematics relate [videorecording (DVD)] / David Kung.

by Kung, David T.

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Teaching Co., c2013.

DVD 510.71 K96h

Music in mathematics education.

Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects.

Music -- Mathematics.

Musical intervals and scales.

Musical meter and rhythm.

Symmetry (Music)

Great courses (DVD)

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Mathematics.

9781598039207 (set)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. How music and mathematics relate [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

3 videodiscs (ca. 9 hrs.) : digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 112 p. ; 19 cm.).

"12 lectures / 45 minutes per lecture"--Container.

Book contains lecture transcripts and outlines, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

Disc 1. Overtones: symphony in a single note -- Timbre: why each instrument sounds different -- Pitch and auditory illusions -- How scales are constructed.

Disc 2. How scale tunings and composition coevolved -- Dissonance and piano tuning -- Rhythm: from numbers to patterns -- Transformations and symmetry.

Disc 3. Self-reference from Bach to Gödel -- Composing with math: classical to avant-garde -- The digital delivery of music -- Math, music, and the mind.

Lecturer, Professor David Kung, Professor of Mathematics at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

These twelve 45-minute lectures will take you inside a fascinating subject filled with beautiful symmetries and simple mathematical explanations of musical sounds you hear every day. Exploring the connections between math and music, while assuming little background in either subject. Throughout the course, the central goal will be to reveal how mathematics helps us understand the musical experience.

Filmed lectures.

Educational films.

Teaching Company.

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