Daikanyama College of Music Lecture Series Vol.1 - Music x Mathematics : May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?

External Event
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Date
October 21 (Wed) at 20:00 - 21:00, 2020 (JST)
Speaker
  • Takashi Tsuboi (Deputy Program Director, iTHEMS / Musashino University)
Venue
  • via Online
Language
Japanese

Prof. Takashi Tsuboi, Deputy Program Director of iTHEMS will explain the beauty and harmony of Mathematics together with the piano performance by Rutsuko Yamagishi.

Contents:

  • Pythagoras. Pythagorean Triangle.
  • Pythagorean tuning
    • Frequency and pitch of sound Octave
    • Pythagorean tuning was created using 3x and 2x properties
  • The ratio of numbers and Just intonation
  • Mersenne's Equal temperament
  • Discovery of Logarithms
  • Wave and Fourier Analysis

Piano performance:

  • F. List: Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este, Années de pèlerinage Troisième année Ⅳ
  • J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book, in C Major Prelude BWV 846 
  • D. Scarlatti: Sonata K.87 in B minor
  • S. Rachmaninoff: Moments musicaux Op.16-4 in E minor (Presto)

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