Have any Members seen Mr. Tymoczko's new book "
A Geometry of Music" which Oxford brought out the other day?
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/9450/title/Math_Trek__The_Geometry_of_Music "Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice" he calls it - meaning "tonal music from the late Middle Ages to the present." And there is a "web-site" with audio files to assist readers who have trouble playing or imagining the notated examples. "The chromatic music of the late nineteenth century continues to be shrouded in mystery," he asserts. The goal of his book is "to understand tonality afresh."
Here is one of his many imaginative illustrations:
