Musical Scales and Multiplicative Groups
Donald Spector

Proceedings of Bridges 2018: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture
Pages 387–390
Short Papers

Abstract

Composers frequently apply mathematical operations to musical scales that treat a scale’s sequence of notes in additive fashion. Here, we introduce operations from multiplicative group theory to develop new methods of obtaining and transforming musical expressions. The methods are applicable to conventional and non-conventional scales.

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