Music and Mathematics

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

This course addresses relationships between musical and mathematical concepts with an emphasis on problem-solving and visualization. Musical topics include time units and cycles, pitch organization, tuning systems, and chord structures in diverse cultures. These topics are explored through basic arithmetical operations on integers and rational numbers and through geometric sequences and series, radicals, logarithms, graphs, modular arithmetic, and the Euclidean algorithm. (Format: Integrated Lecture and Laboratory 3 Hours) (Exclusion: MUSC 1001)