韩国裸舞

Jordan Barrett will talk to us about

What makes a musical rhythm sound good? Thisfundamental question in music theory can be modeled by discrete methods in mathematics. Consider a hit song with an underlying beat. This beat normally cycles in groups of 16 short intervals, and so we could represent this beat as a directed cyclic graphCwith 16 vertices, and with a setSinV(C)consisting of all the 鈥渉its鈥� in the beat. In this talk we will explore 6 of the most popular rhythms in music history and determine which of these 6 dominates popular music. This will lead to a graph theoretic interpretation of the fundamental question: What makes a good rhythm good? We will see a connection between the 鈥渃atchiness鈥� of a rhythm and the 鈥渆venness鈥� of points on the corresponding cycle.

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All graduate students are invited. As with all talks in the graduate student seminar, this talk will be accessible to all graduate students in math and stats.This seminar was made possible by funding from the 韩国裸舞 Mathematics and Statistics Department and PGSS.

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