Fractals in Music: Introductory Mathematics for Musical Analysis

by Charles Madden

Establishing a new genre of musical analysis, this book goes beyond the usual analysis of chord symbols and period forms to examine such topics Fibonacci number and golden mean proportions, Statistics for distinguishing among styles, Self-similarity in form. This second edition includes many new illustrations and concepts, Orbit drawings of attractors, Correlation coefficients, Melodic dimensions. It is intended for readers with little mathematical background and requires only algrebra and trigonometry.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published August 30, 1999

Reviews

[Elchin Jafarov · Rating 1 out of 5]

The idea is excellent, but implementation (how the book is structured, written and the quality of text) is really bad.