Fractal geometry of music.

Hsü, K J; Hsü, A J · Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 1990

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Abstract

Music critics have compared Bach's music to the precision of mathematics. What "mathematics" and what "precision" are the questions for a curious scientist. The purpose of this short note is to suggest that the mathematics is, at least in part, Mandelbrot's fractal geometry and the precision is the deviation from a log-log linear plot.