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Article: Geometrie der Tone: Elemente der mathematischen Musiktheorie.
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- Perspectives of New Music
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- June 22, 1993
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Guerino Mazzola. Geometrie der Tone: Elemente der mathematischen Musiktheorie. Basel: Birkhauser, 1990.
Over the last ten years, independently of Anglo-American music scholarship, the Swiss mathematician and composer Guerino Mazzola has published a series of works, culminating in Geometrie der Tone, that constitutes a sustained and productive attempt at modeling music mathematically. Imaginative and broad in scope, his most recent book offers a fresh perspective on many important problems of music theory. Inevitably it intersects in some topics with David Lewin's Generalized Musical Intervals and Transformations, but it remains distinct from that treatise in its ...