Perfect Balance: A Novel Principle for the Construction of Musical Scales and Meters

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-20603-5_9zbMath1320.00026OpenAlexW1945146084WikidataQ57567467 ScholiaQ57567467MaRDI QIDQ2942307

Andrew J. Milne, William A. Sethares, S. Herff, David W. Bulger

Publication date: 20 August 2015

Published in: Mathematics and Computation in Music (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20603-5_9

zbMATH Keywords

scalesmusicdiscrete Fourier transformbalanceevennessmicrotonalmeters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for discrete and fast Fourier transforms (65T50) Problem solving in the context of artificial intelligence (heuristics, search strategies, etc.) (68T20) Mathematics and music (00A65)

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Cites Work

• Scratching the Scale Labyrinth
• Modelling the similarity of pitch collections with expectation tensors
• Statistical Analysis of Circular Data
• David Lewin and maximally even sets

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