TY  - BOOK
TI  - Music by the numbers: from Pythagoras to Schoenberg 
SN  - 9780691176901
AV  - ML 3805 .M320 2018
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Music
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: A world in crisis -- String theory, 500 BCE -- Sidebar A. It's all about nomenclatures -- Enlightenment -- The great string debate, 1730-1780 -- Sidebar B. The Slinky -- A most precious gift -- Musical temperament -- Sidebar C. Music for the record books: the lowest, the longest, the oldest, and the weirdest -- Musical gadgets: the tuning fork and the metronome -- Rhythm, meter, and metric -- Frames of reference: where am I? -- Sidebar D. Musical hierarchies -- Relativistic music -- Aftermath -- Sidebar E. The Bernoulli -- The last Pythagoreans
N2  - How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century
ER  -