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What is the relationship between music and math?

Music is richly mathematical, and an understanding of one subject can be a great help in understanding the other. Geometry and angles My masters thesis is devoted in part to a method for teaching math concepts using a drum machine organized on a radial grid. Placing rhythms on a circle gives a good multisensory window …

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Posted byEthanSeptember 30, 2011February 6, 2016Posted inMath, Music, Music TheoryTags: bellringing, circle of fifths, combinatorics, discrete math, graph theory, LinkedIn, logarithms, math, modular arithmetic, Neal Stephenson, Quora, recursion, schools, symmetry, wave mechanics2 Comments on What is the relationship between music and math?
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