Mathematical Music and Online Archives
I just discovered a free online version of the book titled Music: a Mathematical Offering. This looks awesome. It has chapters on specific wave equations for each type of instrument, consonance and dissonance, scales and temperaments and all kinds of other stuff infinitely appealing to geeks. Perhaps I’ll crack open a fresh ream of paper and sneakily print it out at work.
Along the same lines, Dave Rusin’s page at NIU has a tonne (does the ‘e’ mean it’s metric or imperial?) of math/music related links. The relevant wikipedia article is a also good starting point.
Oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, as I awoke this Saturday morning– having surprisingly managed to avoid sleeping in, screw you 9:00am meetings — the appropriate melody meandering around inside was “Music is Math” by the Boards of Canada:
Which subsequently led to the discovery of the online Prelinger archives, in which once can browse through and download over 2000 historical films, free for public reuse. This deserves careful exploration.