Chapter 10
Music, Number, and Nature
Topics: Connecting nature, music and number, Pythagorean theorem, music from math curves, sin() and cos() functions, the Python math library, visualizing oscillations, the harmonograph, sonifying oscillations, Kepler’s harmony of the world revisited.
10.1 Overview
In the previous chapters, we studied essential building blocks of music and computer science. We now know enough about music and programming to return to the themes introduced in Chapter 1. In this chapter we will deepen our exploration into the connections between music, number, and nature, and introduce you to ideas that will hopefully inspire and guide you in your own personal journey into music and programming.
The Pythagoreans discovered that ...
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