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Author : Eli Maor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780691202969
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth century.
Author : Richard Osborne,Dave Laing
Publisher : Contemporary Music Making and Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Music trade
ISBN : 178938253X
The music industries are fuelled by statistics: sales targets, breakeven points, success ratios, royalty splits, website hits, ticket revenues, listener figures, piracy abuses and big data. Statistics are of consequence. They influence the music that consumers get to hear, they determine the revenues of music makers, and they shape the policies of governments and legislators. Yet many of these statistics are generated by the music industries themselves, and their accuracy can be questioned. This original new book sets out to explore this shadowy terrain. While there are books that offer guidelines about how the music industries work, as well as critiques from academics about the policies of music companies, this is the first book that takes a sustained look at these subjects from a statistical angle. This is particularly significant as statistics have not just been used to explain the music industries, they are also essential to the ways that the industries work: they drive signing policy, contractual policy, copyright policy, economic policy and understandings of consumer behaviour. This edited collection provides the first in-depth examination of the use and abuse of statistics in the music industries. The international group of contributors are noted music business scholars and practitioners in the field. The book addresses five key areas in which numbers are employed: sales and awards; royalties and distribution; music piracy; music policy; and audiences and their uses of music. The authors address these subjects from a range of perspectives. Some of them test the veracity of this data and explore its tactical use by music businesses. Others are helping to generate these numbers: they are developing surveys and online projects and offer candid self-observations in this volume. There are also authors who have been subject to statistics; they deliver first-hand accounts of music industry reporting. The digital age is inherently numerical. Within the music industries this has prompted new ways of tracking the usage and recompense of music. In addition, it has generated new means of monitoring and engaging audience behaviour. It has also led to increased documentation of the trade. There is more reporting of the overall revenues of music industry sectors. There is also more engagement between industry and academia when it comes to conducting analyses and offering numerical recommendations to politicians. The aim of this collection is to expose the culture and politics of data. Music industry statistics are all-pervasive, yet because of this ubiquity they have been under-explored. This book provides new ways by which to learn music by numbers. A timely examination of how data and statistics are key to the music industries. Widely held industry assumptions are challenged with data from a variety of sources and in an engaging, lucid manner. Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in how the music business uses and manipulates the data that digital technologies have made available. Primary readership will be among popular music academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students working in the fields of popular music studies, music business, media studies, cultural studies, sociology and creative industries. The book will also be of interest to people working within the music industries and to those whose work encounters industry statistics.
Author : Steve Grantley,Alan Parker,Sean Body
Publisher : Helter Skelter Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Rock music
ISBN : UCBK:C103283575
Emerging from the mid-1960s R&B mod scene with furious teenage anthems like 'My Generation', The Who were the wildest, angriest and loudest kids on the block. And in spite of Townshend's most famous line - 'hope I die before I get old' - and unlike so many of their rivals, The Who lived to forge more mature works in the late 1960s and the 1970s with the phenomenal success of their pioneering rock opera, Tommy, their revered song collection Who's Next and Townshend's mod masterpiece Quadrophenia.
Author : Gareth E. Roberts
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781421419183
A guided tour of the mathematical principles inherent in music. Taking a "music first" approach, Gareth E. Roberts's From Music to Mathematics will inspire students to learn important, interesting, and at times advanced mathematics. Ranging from a discussion of the geometric sequences and series found in the rhythmic structure of music to the phase-shifting techniques of composer Steve Reich, the musical concepts and examples in the book motivate a deeper study of mathematics. Comprehensive and clearly written, From Music to Mathematics is designed to appeal to readers without specialized knowledge of mathematics or music. Students are taught the relevant concepts from music theory (notation, scales, intervals, the circle of fifths, tonality, etc.), with the pertinent mathematics developed alongside the related musical topic. The mathematics advances in level of difficulty from calculating with fractions, to manipulating trigonometric formulas, to constructing group multiplication tables and proving a number is irrational. Topics discussed in the book include • Rhythm • Introductory music theory • The science of sound • Tuning and temperament • Symmetry in music • The Bartók controversy • Change ringing • Twelve-tone music • Mathematical modern music • The Hemachandra–Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio • Magic squares • Phase shifting Featuring numerous musical excerpts, including several from jazz and popular music, each topic is presented in a clear and in-depth fashion. Sample problems are included as part of the exposition, with carefully written solutions provided to assist the reader. The book also contains more than 200 exercises designed to help develop students' analytical skills and reinforce the material in the text. From the first chapter through the last, readers eager to learn more about the connections between mathematics and music will find a comprehensive textbook designed to satisfy their natural curiosity.
Author : Alan Shepherd
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030637699
This book shows how information theory, probability, statistics, mathematics and personal computers can be applied to the exploration of numbers and proportions in music. It brings the methods of scientific and quantitative thinking to questions like: What are the ways of encoding a message in music and how can we be sure of the correct decoding? How do claims of names hidden in the notes of a score stand up to scientific analysis? How many ways are there of obtaining proportions and are they due to chance? After thoroughly exploring the ways of encoding information in music, the ambiguities of numerical alphabets and the words to be found “hidden” in a score, the book presents a novel way of exploring the proportions in a composition with a purpose-built computer program and gives example results from the application of the techniques. These include information theory, combinatorics, probability, hypothesis testing, Monte Carlo simulation and Bayesian networks, presented in an easily understandable form including their development from ancient history through the life and times of J. S. Bach, making connections between science, philosophy, art, architecture, particle physics, calculating machines and artificial intelligence. For the practitioner the book points out the pitfalls of various psychological fallacies and biases and includes succinct points of guidance for anyone involved in this type of research. This book will be useful to anyone who intends to use a scientific approach to the humanities, particularly music, and will appeal to anyone who is interested in the intersection between the arts and science. With a foreword by Ruth Tatlow (Uppsala University), award winning author of Bach’s Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance and Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet. “With this study Alan Shepherd opens a much-needed examination of the wide range of mathematical claims that have been made about J. S. Bach's music, offering both tools and methodological cautions with the potential to help clarify old problems.” Daniel R. Melamed, Professor of Music in Musicology, Indiana University
Author : John Aschenbrenner
Publisher : Walden Pond Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780971893610
The easiest way to start playing piano. Kids love it. Put the numbered stickers on your keys and you're ready to play.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Running Press Kids
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780762470617
This whimsical numbers board book shares a little music history while teaching your children the numbers 1 through 10. Toddlers learning to identify numbers will love this charming and funny book, while music-savvy parents will enjoy the artistic representation of some of their favorite song titles from some of their favorite musical artists. The book includes the following song titles: - ONE Fine Day (The Chiffons) - It Takes TWO (Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock) - THREE Little Birds (Bob Marley) - FOUR Strong Winds (Neil Young) - High FIVE (Beck) - SIX Weeks (James Morrison) - SEVEN SEAS OF RHYE (Queen) - EIGHT Days a Week (The Beatles) - Love Potion No. 9 (The Clovers) - TEN Feet Tall (Various) A follow-up to Running Press Kids's Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Colors in Music, this will be an ideal gift for the music-loving kid or family.
Author : Danica McKellar
Publisher : Dragonfly Books
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593643556
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Count your way to sweet dreams with help from The Wonder Years/Great American Family star, math whiz, and author Danica McKellar! This New York Times bestselling bedtime book with a math twist is perfect both for getting ready for bed and learning at home. This deceptively simple bedtime book sneaks in secret counting concepts to help make your 2-5 year old smarter . . . and by the end, sleepier! The first in the McKellar Math line, Goodnight, Numbers gives your child the building blocks for math success. As children say goodnight to the objects all around them—three wheels on a tricycle, four legs on a cat—they will connect with the real numbers in their world while creating cuddly memories, night after night. Loving numbers is as easy as 1, 2, 3! "A winner for bedtimes or storytimes focusing on counting." —School Library Journal "The joys of counting combine with pretty art and homage to Goodnight Moon." —Kirkus
Author : Jenny Kay Dupuis,Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781772602326
When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from, despite the efforts of the nuns who are in charge at the school and who tell her that she is not to use her own name but instead use the number they have assigned to her. When she goes home for summer holidays, Irene's parents decide never to send her and her brothers away again. But where will they hide? And what will happen when her parents disobey the law? Based on the life of co-author Jenny Kay Dupuis’ grandmother, I Am Not a Number is a hugely necessary book that brings a terrible part of Canada’s history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to.
Author : John Fauvel,Raymond Flood,Robin J. Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0198511876
From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and the relationship between mathematics and music has fascinated generations. This collection of wide ranging, comprehensive and fully-illustrated papers, authorized by leading scholars, presents the link between these two subjects in a lucid manner that is suitable for students of both subjects, as well as the general reader with an interest in music. Physical, theoretical, physiological, acoustic, compositional and analytical relationships between mathematics and music are unfolded and explored with focus on tuning and temperament, the mathematics of sound, bell-ringing and modern compositional techniques.
Author : Alan Parker,Steve Grantley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : Rock music
ISBN : 1900924919
The Who are one of the most important and enduring rock bands of all time, but this is the first book to give their music-rather than their rock and roll lifestyles-the credence it deserves. From early anthems like "My Generation" to later classics like "Who Are You"-taking in Tommy and Quadrophenia along the way-this is an anecdote-packed, album-by-album, song-by-song commentary on the songs of one of the classic rock bands, The Who.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hal Leonard
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781705103920
(Vocal Selections). Six has received rave reviews around the world for its modern take on the stories of the six wives of Henry VIII and it's finally opening on Broadway! From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the six wives take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an exuberant celebration of 21st century girl power! Songs include: All You Wanna Do * Don't Lose Ur Head * Ex-Wives * Get Down * Haus of Holbein * Heart of Stone * I Don't Need Your Love * No Way * Six.
Author : Tom Johnson,Franck Jedrzejewski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783034805544
Galileo Galilei said he was “reading the book of nature” as he observed pendulums swinging, but he might also simply have tried to draw the numbers themselves as they fall into networks of permutations or form loops that synchronize at different speeds, or attach themselves to balls passing in and out of the hands of good jugglers. Numbers are, after all, a part of nature. As such, looking at and thinking about them is a way of understanding our relationship to nature. But when we do so in a technical, professional way, we tend to overlook their basic attributes, the things we can understand by simply “looking at numbers.” Tom Johnson is a composer who uses logic and mathematical models, such as combinatorics of numbers, in his music. The patterns he finds while “looking at numbers” can also be explored in drawings. This book focuses on such drawings, their beauty and their mathematical meaning. The accompanying comments were written in collaboration with the mathematician Franck Jedrzejewski.
Author : Chas Williams
Publisher : Ingram
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Country music
ISBN : 0963090674
The Nashville Number System was originally written and published in 1988 by Chas. He has rigorously updated and edited the book for each of 7 subsequent editions. Featured here is the 2005 printing and 7th edition of The Nashville Number System; expanded with the inclusion of the cd/cd rom, String Of Pearls. By word of mouth, it has become the most recommended source for learning the Number System. The Nashville Number System is used as a text at Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Belmont University, in Nashville, and MTSU in Murfreesboro,TN. SYNOPSISIn the late 50's, Neil Matthews devised a musical number system for the Jordanaires to use in the studio. Charlie McCoy and fellow studio musicians began adapting Matthews' number system into chord charts. The Nashville Number System has evolved into a complete method of writing chord charts and melodies---combining Nashville shorthand with formal notation standards. The Nashville Number System is 130 pages with a step by step method of how to write a Nashville number chart for any song. Included with each NNS book in Edition 7 is the cd, "String Of Pearls". This is a 10 song cd of instrumentals, including, Amazing Grace. I walk you through the details of each song and explain the Number System tools used to write the charts. Now, while listening to the cd, you can see and hear how Nashville number charts work.String Of Pearls is an Extended CD (CD ROM). As well as high quality audio that will play in your cd player, you can insert the disc into your computer and watch animated number charts as you listen to the songs. On the cd rom, there is a click track with each song and a highlight moving from chord to chord in time with the music. You can see exactly how to count each measure in real time with the music. Counting bars is probably the hardest part of the number system to teach. With this cd rom, you will be able to see, hear and feel how these charts work.
Author : Natural,Lynne A. Vanne
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781257019830
Music is a relational language of patterns and distances, all of which can be described using the musical scale and the intervals it produces. You could memorize dozens of keys and spellings and progressions, or you could learn one formula that generates all the patterns. This book is full of �HOW TO�� formulas for musical concepts applicable to any instrument. With easy to understand full-color examples and the Intervalometer, included in this book, you have all the tools you need to pass a college-level music theory course, or to compose, arrange and improvise more effectively. Even if you already know music theory, this book will give you a fresh perspective and understanding of why certain musical patterns are so universal. All musical concepts are explained in terms of both the Major and Minor scales using scale degree numbers. This system is the �Rosetta Stone� to creating intervals, scales, modes, chords, and reading music relatively in any key, on any instrument.