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SUMMARY:Travis Dillon, LU '21 - What atonal music theorists 
 know about metric probability spaces
CONTACT;ALTREP="mailto:elizabeth.k.sattler@lawrence.edu":
 Elizabeth Sattler\, elizabeth.k.sattler@lawrence.edu
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 You don't need to know anything about music theory 
 to understand the talk, and in spite of the fancy 
 math words in the last paragraph, you only need 
 to know some basic probability to follow everything.\n
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 In the early 20th century, a subversive composer 
 and music theorist named Arnold Schoenberg began 
 to compose in a radical new way, completely breaking 
 with the centuries-old tenets of Western harmony. 
 He inspired composers, musicologists, and music 
 critics, and his ideas are taught at music schools 
 around the world. His music practice was, to put 
 it lightly, controversial, and it never caught 
 on in popular music.\n
 In spite of this, Schoenberg's music and the music 
 of his disciples have inspired a mountain of papers 
 in a new kind of music theory, one that some have 
 derided as too mathematical for musicians and 
 too musical for mathematicians. But there is interesting, 
 surprising math to excavate from this mountain 
 nonetheless, and in this talk, we'll see how a 
 funny coincidence in the basic tenets of atonal 
 music theory leads us from cyclic groups to surprises 
 with spheres to abstract metric probability spaces 
 and back to finite graphs. And maybe we'll even 
 listen to some of Schoenberg's music along the 
 way.\n\n

LOCATION:Steitz Hall 202
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