Musical Scales and the Generalized Circle of Fifths

DOI10.2307/2322282zbMath0659.00023OpenAlexW4251997298MaRDI QIDQ3808039

John Clough, Gerald Myerson

Publication date: 1986

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2322282

zbMATH Keywords

musical scalesdiatonic scalesmusical combinatoricsgeneralized circle of fifths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Enumerative combinatorics (05A99) General and miscellaneous specific topics (00A99)

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