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Embedding in Musical Scales

Student-Run Research Seminar

Speaker: Debbie Hill, UC Davis
Location: 693 Kerr
Start time: Wed, Apr 18 2001, 12:10PM

I will discuss the embedding of the diatonic scale in the chromatic scale (in music). There is a theorem that states that the number of notes in a sequence in the diatonic scale is equal to the number of species that the equivalence class of sequences divides into. I will prove this as well as present some other interesting related results.