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Mathematics touches everything in life, even music, is a mathematical philosophy!

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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I have an entire book dedicated to the mathematics of musical tones!

It is Helmholtz' On The Sensations Of Tone - first published I think in the 1870s though my copy is a modern, Dover Publications, facsimile from the 1980s.

You really do need understand a lot of high-grade maths, particularly trigonometry, series and exponentials, to appreciate harmonic analysis fully, but unfortunately my maths ability is far too low!