April 2011
7 posts
Proof: The Geometry of Musical Chords →
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by Dmitri Tymoczko
A musical chord can be represented as a point in an orbifold. (An orbifold is a quotient manifold.)
Line segments join notes of one chord to those of another. Composers in a wide range of styles have exploited the (non-Euclidean)…