Mathematics and Society - OS X Lion Server

,.(Many people recognize a composer or singer whenthey hear the music played or sung. There's somethingfamiliar about the melody or its rhythm that makes itidentifiable. Can composers be identified by somemathematical structure in their music?Some components of music that are easy to represent with numbers or number sequencesare the placement of note~in the scale and interval jumps.Most students could easily analyze a piece of music by studying the frequency ofinterval jumps.Bar graphs can be used to display the information obtained.Activity for Students:Assign the numbers I to 88 in ascending order to the 88 notes on the piano.half-tone interval is given a new number in this manner:Each(The melody line of some piece of music is then changed to a sequence of numbers.Beethoven's "Minuet in Gilis numbered here as an example:·~·F~302