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  2. Mathematics and art - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics. Mathematics and art are related in a variety of ways. Mathematics has itself been described as an art motivated by beauty. Mathematics can be discerned in arts such as music, dance, painting, architecture, sculpture, and textiles. This article focuses, however, on mathematics in the visual arts.

  3. Twelve-tone technique - Wikipedia

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    The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition.The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music while preventing the emphasis of any one note [3] through the use of tone rows, orderings of the 12 ...

  4. Consonance and dissonance - Wikipedia

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    Thus, a note and the note one octave higher are highly consonant because the partials of the higher note are also partials of the lower note. [10] Dynamic tonality Like "coincidence of partials" above, dynamic tonality considers consonance to arise from the alignment of partials with notes (as per the video at right; see also dynamic timbres).

  5. Timbre - Wikipedia

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    In music, timbre (/ ˈtæmbər, ˈtɪm -, ˈtæ̃ -/), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone. Timbre distinguishes different types of sound production, such as choir voices and musical instruments. It also enables listeners to distinguish different ...

  6. Mathematical beauty - Wikipedia

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    Mathematical beauty is the aesthetic pleasure derived from the abstractness, purity, simplicity, depth or orderliness of mathematics. Mathematicians may express this pleasure by describing mathematics (or, at least, some aspect of mathematics) as beautiful or describe mathematics as an art form, (a position taken by G. H. Hardy [1]) or, at a ...

  7. Music and mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Music theory analyzes the pitch, timing, and structure of music. It uses mathematics to study elements of music such as tempo, chord progression, form, and meter. The attempt to structure and communicate new ways of composing and hearing music has led to musical applications of set theory, abstract algebra and number theory.

  8. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  9. Music - Wikipedia

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    Timbre, sometimes called "color" or "tone color" is the quality or sound of a voice or instrument. [97] Timbre is what makes a particular musical sound different from another, even when they have the same pitch and loudness. For example, a 440 Hz A note sounds different when it is played on oboe, piano, violin, or