Euclidean rhythm: Difference between revisions

The '''Euclidean Rhythm''' in music was discovered by [[Godfried Toussaint]] in 2004 and is described in a 2005 paper "The [[Euclidean algorithm|Euclidean Algorithm]] Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms".<ref name="gtpdf">[http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf The Euclidean algorithm generates traditional musical rhythms] by G. T. Toussaint, ''Proceedings of BRIDGES: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science'', Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 31 to August 3, 2005, pp. 47–56.</ref> The [[greatest common divisor]] of two numbers is used [[Rhythm|rhythmically]] giving the number of [[beat (music)|beats]] and silences, generating almost all of the most important [[World Music]] rhythms,<ref name="gtweb">[http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/rhythm-and-mathematics.html Comparative Musicology - Musical Rhythm and Mathematics]</ref> (except [[India#Performing_ArtsPerforming_arts|Indian]]).<ref name="extv">The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms, by Godfried Toussaint, [http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff-extended.pdf Extended version] of the paper that appeared in the ''Proceedings of BRIDGES: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science’’, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 31-August 3, 2005, pp. 47–56.</ref> The beats in the resulting rhythms are as equidistant as possible; the same results can be obtained from the [[Bresenham's line algorithm|Bresenham]] algorithm.