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'''Elements of Harmony''' (Tamil: ___) is a collection of [[Tamil]]-language textbooks by physicist, mathematician and composer Towaomer covering elementary number theory, acoustics, and just intonation music theory.
'''Elements of Harmony''' (Tamil: ___) is a collection of [[Tamil]]-language textbooks by physicist, mathematician and composer ___ covering elementary number theory, acoustics, and just intonation music theory.


==Contents==
==Contents==

Revision as of 10:36, 22 June 2017

Elements of Harmony (Tamil: ___) is a collection of Tamil-language textbooks by physicist, mathematician and composer ___ covering elementary number theory, acoustics, and just intonation music theory.

Contents

  • Book 1 discusses mathematical results:
    • Basically the number theory results in Euclid's Elements plus...
    • Continued fractions
  • Book 2 discusses basic acoustics (don't mention frequencies)
    • monochord; building it
    • Mersenne's Laws?
    • harmonic series
    • intervals as rational string length ratios (given equal thickness and tension); these can be written as tuples/monzos by unique factorization
  • Book 3 discusses harmonic properties of various scales.
    • odd- and prime-limit
    • chord voicings
    • otonal and utonal chords
    • tonality diamond

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