Note on Mathematics of Music via ams.jhu.edu

The great mathematician Gottfried Leibniz who is credited with being one of the inventors of calculus, once said that

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Implicit in this statement is the notion that all of us who appreciate music must, on at least a subconscious level, be appreciating its mathematical structure.

FROM:

ams.jhu.edu

Mathematics of Music

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We’re enjoying the ability to predict the next count and then feel its resolution.

Once we see music as math, we can explore it with the tools of math.