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Date: 03/10/05

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    Fractals in Music: Introductory Mathematics for Musical Analysis
    (Inmusic (Salt Lake City, Utah), No. 1.)
    by Charles Madden "Musicians of the past were much more involved with
    mathematics than they are today..." (more)

    Editorial Reviews
     From the Publisher
    Fractals in Music is an interesting crossover between disciplines. It
    shows how the mathematics of chaos theory and fractal geometry can be
    applied to understanding music in ways that may be more applicable to
    the technological age than current musical analysis is.

    Advertised as "music theory for the new millennium," it discusses
    Fibonacci numbers, statistics, and Fourier analysis, as well as
    randomicity, correlation, and inner/outer form.

    Although focusing primarily on classical music, the concepts are equally
    applicable to popular music or jazz.

    Many non-musicians may find Fractals in Music interesting because of its
    tie to the well-known fractal images that have been popular for the past
    several years.

    About the Author
    A science buff since his teen years, Charles Madden was a physics major
    until music took over his life. As a starving artist, he frequently had
    to get work to "support his career." Thus he gained experience in fields
    as varied as electronics and spreadsheets.

    Trained at the universities of Brigham Young, Illinois, and Utah, he
    taught there, and was a composer and pianist for fifteen years.

    For the past several years, he has studied the mathematics of chaos
    theory and fractal geometry, the result of which is this collection of
    applications to formal musical analysis.

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