Musical Scales, Integer Partitions, Necklaces, and Polygons
David Rappaport

Bridges London: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
Pages 595–598

Abstract

A musical scale can be viewed as a subsequence of notes taken from a chromatic sequence. Given integers (N,K) N > K we use particular integer partitions of N into K parts to construct distinguished scales. We show that a natural geometric realization of these scales results in maximal polygons.

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