Musical actions of dihedral groups

DOI10.4169/193009709X470399MaRDI QIDQ3107074zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alissa S. Crans, Thomas M. Fiore, Ramon Satyendra

Publication date 1 January 2012

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1873

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics and music (00A65) Abstract finite groups (20D99) Groups, rings, fields (educational aspects) (97H40) Arts, music, language, architecture (aspects of mathematics education) (97M80)

Abstract: The sequence of pitches which form a musical melody can be transposed or inverted. Since the 1970s, music theorists have modeled musical transposition and inversion in terms of an action of the dihedral group of order 24. More recently music theorists have found an intriguing second way that the dihedral group of order 24 acts on the set of major and minor chords. We illustrate both geometrically and algebraically how these two actions are {it dual}. Both actions and their duality have been used to analyze works of music as diverse as Hindemith and the Beatles.

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