Klarinet Archive - Posting 000427.txt from 1999/09

From: Jennifer Jones <JJONES@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] Lecture schedue
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 23:43:32 -0400

> College faculty on the KLARINET list. My wife and I are driving
> across the U.S. late March and early April, 2000, with 6 lectures
> to give, the last on Apr. 15 in Lancaster, PA at the annual
> meeting of the American Military Historical Society. The first
> 5 lectures are to be in Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Indiana, and
> Ohio, with all 5 on the same topic: Mozart and Mathematics. A
> summary of the talk and its purpose is given below.

I'd really like to see or hear this. If anyone is going to tape it or make
transcripts, I'll be more than happy to reimburse for tape etc.

[snip]

> It gives rise to the very old question about a theoretical
> relationship between the thought processes of mathematics and those
> of music.

I don't think this is a question at all. At least for me. Mathematics is the
language of the universe. It describes everything from a falling ball on earth
to statistical occurrences of natural phenomena. Since music is a product of
our brains and mathematics describes the events that occur in our brains when
composing, it is inevitable that there is going to be a link between them.
whether or not we know the mathematical pattern describing those events is
beside the point. They induobitably exist.

This is scary. I am feeling religious about this. I need someone to challenge
it and bring in other perspectives.

[snip]

-Jennifer H. Jones

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