This document discusses the mathematical concepts underlying music. It begins by outlining the presentation and introducing music and the human senses. It then discusses Fourier transforms and how they can be used to understand musical concepts mathematically. The document covers topics like musical scales, frequencies, harmonics, and provides examples analyzing musical notes from a flute and violin. It aims to demonstrate how mathematics and programming can help analyze and understand music.
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1. MATHEMATICS
AND MUSIC
息 DR CHETAN B BHATT
Dr. Chetan B. Bhatt
Principal,
Government MCA
College
Maninagar, Ahmedabad
4. MUSIC
Sound (爐о爐朽え爐) any mechanical vibration
Musical Sound sound which has periodic frequency provides
musical perception, it is called 爐逗ぞ爐 in Sanskrit.
Musical Note
Selected Nadas (爐逗ぞ爐) become 爐謹爐萎爐爐垂, 22 in numbers
Selected 12 爐謹爐萎爐爐垂 become musical notes (爐伍爐朽ぐ) in a musical scale
having certain characteristics
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5. HUMAN EAR
In our inner ears, the cochlea enables us
to hear subtle differences in the sounds
coming to our ears. The cochlea consists
of a spiral of tissue filled with liquid and
thousands of tiny hairs which gradually
get smaller from the outside of the spiral
to the inside. Each hair is connected to a
nerve which feeds into the auditory nerve
bundle going to the brain. The longer
hairs resonate with lower frequency
sounds, and the shorter hairs with higher
frequencies. Thus the cochlea serves to
transform the air pressure signal
experienced by the ear drum into
frequency information which can be
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6. The human ear takes about '2045 msec' to identify a note within the
range of the human voicefrom 1001000 Hz.
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9. MUSIC AND MATHEMATICS
Scale C D E F G A B C
Indian Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa
Western Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
1 9/8 5/4 4/3 3/2 5/3 15/8 2
Sound
Noise/Non-music
Music
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13. FOURIER TRANSFORM
The Fourier Transform is based on the discovery that it is possible to
take any periodic function of time f(t) and resolve it into an equivalent
infinite summation of sine waves and cosine waves with frequencies
that start at 0 and increase in integer multiples of a base frequency f0
= 1/T, where the T is the period of f(t). The resulting infinite series is
called the Fourier Series:
Java Applet for Fourier Transform (http://falstad.com/fourier/)
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14. FOURIER TRANSFORM
The Fourier Transform is a mathematical technique for doing a similar
thing - resolving any time-domain function into a frequency
spectrum. The Fast Fourier Transform is a method for doing this
process very efficiently.
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15. Flute: G (392 Hz) note above C Middle
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