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Music a Science of Numbers

‘Numeros memini si verba teuerem.’—Virgil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

William Chappell
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Extract

The subject which I submit for your consideration this afternoon is the influence of numbers in music, as in the various combinations of consonances and dissonances which we hear every day, and to show how these are explained by the fundamental laws of the science.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Musical Association , Volume 4 , 1877 , pp. 1 - 12
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1877

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