Music and Mathematics 2004
Sunday, May 16, 2004
location: First United Church
Bach - Cantata 192 "Nun danket alle Gott"
Dufay - Nuper Rosarum Flores
Ockeghem - Missa Prolationem
Webern - Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen
Basic Pythagorean ratios underpin our notions of rhythm, melody and harmony.
The notation of polyphonic music may have inspired Galileo's most influential theories.
Goethe said "architecture is frozen music."
Dufay composed Nuper Rosarum Flores according to the proportions of a Brunelleschi dome.
Fractals, string theory, process philosophy inspire the creation of music.