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Math can be applied to pretty much everything in existence, and music is of no exception. Across this album, The Open University's Alan Graham shares his wealth of knowledge on the relationship between music and math, demonstrates many easy-to-follow theories and examples, and performs several pieces of traditional music with his band Betty's Kitchen. This material forms part of The Open University course MU120 Open mathematics.

Sounds harmonious - for iPad/Mac/PC The Open University

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Math can be applied to pretty much everything in existence, and music is of no exception. Across this album, The Open University's Alan Graham shares his wealth of knowledge on the relationship between music and math, demonstrates many easy-to-follow theories and examples, and performs several pieces of traditional music with his band Betty's Kitchen. This material forms part of The Open University course MU120 Open mathematics.

    Sounds harmonious

    Sounds harmonious

    As per album description

    • 40 sec
    Transcript -- Sounds harmonious

    Transcript -- Sounds harmonious

    As per album description

    • video
    Music and math

    Music and math

    The Open University's Alan Graham shares his knowledge on the link between music and math, and his band Betty's Kitchen perform several songs and talk us through their instruments.

    • 7 min
    Transcript -- Music and math

    Transcript -- Music and math

    The Open University's Alan Graham shares his knowledge on the link between music and math, and his band Betty's Kitchen perform several songs and talk us through their instruments.

    • video
    Pitch and time

    Pitch and time

    This track looks at the relationship between pitch and time in musical notation and illustrates how vibrations produce musical notes and how pitch is determined.

    • 2 min
    Transcript -- Pitch and time

    Transcript -- Pitch and time

    This track looks at the relationship between pitch and time in musical notation and illustrates how vibrations produce musical notes and how pitch is determined.

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