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Stephen travis pope, create lab, department of music, university of california, santa barbara volume 1 of musimathics is the ideal introduction to the science of musical acoustics and composition theory, and volume 2. Loy was an early practitioner of music synthesis at stanford, and wrote the first software compiler for the systems concepts digital synthesizer samson box. The text of volume 1 can serve as a good general primer of newtonian physics, and loy develops the mathematical principles with lucid explanations. Gareth loy gareth loy is a musician and awardwinning composer. In musimathics, loy teaches us the tune, providing afriendly and spirited tour of the mathematics of musica commonsense, selfcontained introduction for the nonspecialist reader. The mathematical foundations of music, volume 1, june, 2006 and volume 2 june 2007, published by the mit press. In musimathics, loy teaches us the tune, providing a friendly and spirited tour of the mathematics of musica commonsense, selfcontained introduction for the nonspecialist. A commonsense, selfcontained introduction to the mathematics and physics of. I wish i had received a copy of this years ago, it brought clarity to that which others could not explain and filled in gaps in the theory, gareth loy provides a systematic love affair between science and art.
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