POZZI ESCOT
The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music

First published in 1999 - Second publication in 2002 - Third publication in 2006


SELECTED REVIEWS

"Fascinating book... Finding my way in by way of Babbitt's beautiful little DUET... you belp me to understand why... With my eyes and mind on your elegant models."
     - Andrew Porter, The London Observer

"Elegant book, the models are wonderful and inspire a very fruitful way of thinking about musical form."
     - Michael Hammond-Head, National Endowment for the
       Humanities

"I particularly enjoy the geometrical overlays."
     - Steven Jay Gould, Harvard University

"American composer and music theorist Pozzi Escot's new book courageously concentrates on analytical problems of diverse musics covering a thousand years of history in ten chapters. We look with great interest at the dimension of musical research convinced that, Escot approaches the universal in music in particular with a superb help of mathematics (the composer is a trained mathematician). We admire the wonderful reconstructions of links the author shows. The book reveals the unquestionable results ofthe geometrical approach to the analysis of the compositional process, and it courageously enlightens us."
     - Moreno Andreatta, Spectrum (Rivista di Analisis e
       Pedagogia Musicale), Milan, Italy

"The book is a masterful analysis, indeed:"
     -Tusa Erzsebet, Musashino Academia, Tokyo, Japan

"The Machaut math model with its golden triangles and golden gnomons is stunning."
     -Arthur Loeb, Harvard University

"I have enjoyed The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music. The connections you draw among musics of various eras and cultures are fascinating and highly suggestive."
     -Harry Haskell, Editor, Yale University Press

"Your text on mathematical models is impressive."
     -Mihai Nadin, Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University,
      Columbus

The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music selected by BOOKS OF NOTE (Science/Spirit, 2000)

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ligeti continuum

Gyorgy Ligeti, "Continuum"
model based on additive numbers
Pozzi Escot