Tiling the Musical Canon with Augmentations of the Ashanti Rhythmic Pattern
Carl Bracken, Gary Fitzpatrick, and Nadya Markin

Proceedings of Bridges 2009: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
Pages 265–270
Regular Papers

Abstract

We discuss the problem of constructing a tiling of the musical time-line with a number of instruments (called voices) all of which are playing according to variations of a particular rhythmic pattern. We show that the Ashanti rhythmic pattern allows a tiling in six voices.

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