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What music did : the story of numerocracy in the West /

"In What Music Did, experimental filmmaker and violinist Tony Conrad explores in depth the relationship between music and mathematics. A work of decades that was left unfinished at the time of his death in 2016, Conrad’s expansive history of the interrelationship of music and mathematics is pub...

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Main Author:	Conrad, Tony (Author)
Other Authors:	Nickleson, Patrick (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2026.
Subjects:	Musical intervals and scales > History. Musical temperament > History. Music theory > Mathematics. Music theory. Music > Philosophy and aesthetics. Pythagorean theorem. Théorie musicale > Mathématiques. Théorie musicale. Musique > Philosophie et esthétique. Théorème de Pythagore.

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