The distance geometry of music

Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 429-454

  Demaine, Erik D ^a   Gomez Martin, Francisco ^b   Meijer, Henk ^c   Rappaport, David ^c   Taslakian, Perouz ^d   Toussaint, Godfried T ^d   Winograd, Terry ^e   Wood, David R ^f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e Stanford University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deep rhythms; Euclidean algorithm; Euclidean rhythms; Generated rhythms; Maximally even

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867980912     PISSN: 09257721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comgeo.2008.04.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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