Maths in Music
This topic is about how sound and rhythm make patterns.
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About this topic
Music is full of mathematics: rhythm, timing, frequency ratios, symmetry, cycles, waves, networks and algorithmic pattern.
This section will connect listening, pattern-making and mathematical exploration: predict the structure, hear or see the result, then adjust the rule and try again.
Explore this through balanced rhythms, euclidean patterns and modular arithmetic, non-euclidean music, musical spaces and geometry, tuning systems, frequency ratios and equal temperament.
Further exploration
Explore next: Euclidean rhythms
Look up: equal temperament and tuning ratios
Try searching for: Fourier analysis of sound