FRACTAL GEOMETRY OF MUSIC

被引:89
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作者
HSU, KJ [1 ]
HSU, AJ [1 ]
机构
[1] KONSERVATORIUM & MUSIKHSCH,ZURICH,SWITZERLAND
关键词
Physics of melody;
D O I
10.1073/pnas.87.3.938
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Music critics have compared Bach's music to the precision of mathematics. What 'mathematics' and what 'precision' are the questions for a curious scientist. The purpose of this short note is to suggest that the mathematics is, at least in part, Mandelbrot's fractal geometry and the precision is the deviation from a log-log linear plot.
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页码:938 / 941
页数:4
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