Book review: Music and the making of modern science, by Peter Pesic

Whalley, J. Harry (2014) Book review: Music and the making of modern science, by Peter Pesic. Scottish Journal of Performance, 2 (1). pp. 123-127. ISSN 2054-1961

Creators:
Whalley, J. Harry
Description/Abstract:

In his latest book Peter Pesic skillfully frames the interrelationship between music and science in the context of intellectual exploration. He leads the reader from the ancient historical connections of music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy (the Quadrivium) to concepts that shape our modern understanding of nature by Riemann and Holtz. Importantly, the investigations start from the musical or auditory concept and work towards the related scientific or mathematical idea and not, as is often the case in literature on these subjects, in the other direction. As a composer, my relationship with mathematics, physics and science in general is both explicit in the acoustic properties of the sounds that I want to hear produced, and implicit in the structural and conceptual background work (the pre-composition)

Item Type:
Article
Official URL:
http://www.scottishjournalofperformance.org/Whalle...
Date:
16 December 2014
Identification Number:
10.14439/sjop.2014.0201.10
Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :
music, science, book review
Schools:
School of Film, Media & Performing Arts
Research Centres:
Audio Research Cluster
Depositing User:
Dr J. Harry Whalley
Date Deposited:
12 Jun 2017 14:11
Last Modified:
05 Mar 2022 04:30
Whalley, J. Harry:
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1763-1701
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/3380

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