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040 _erda
050 _aML 3805
_b.M320 2018
245 0 _aMusic by the numbers :
_bfrom Pythagoras to Schoenberg /
_cEli Maor.
264 _aPrinceton, New Jersey :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2018].
300 _axvii, 155 pages :
_billustrations, maps, music
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aPrologue: 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
520 _aHow music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century
650 _aMusic
650 _aMusic
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942 _cCIR
999 _c91084
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