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The '''Euclidean rhythmRhythm''' 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 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–August31-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.
 
== Open-source hardwareSource projectsHardware Projects ==
[[Open-source hardware|Open-source]] music hardware]] projects that can generate Euclidean rhythms, include Mutable Instruments [http://mutable-instruments.net/midipal/build MIDIPal] and [http://mutable-instruments.net/modules/grids/manual Grids], RebelTech's [[Stoicheia]] and Ruin & Wesen's [http://ruinwesen.com/products Minicommand]
 
[[Open-source hardware|Open-source music hardware]] projects that can generate Euclidean rhythms, include Mutable Instruments [http://mutable-instruments.net/midipal/build MIDIPal] and [http://mutable-instruments.net/modules/grids/manual Grids], RebelTech's Stoicheia and Ruin & Wesen's [http://ruinwesen.com/products Minicommand]
 
== Other uses of Euclid's algorithm in music ==
 
In the 17th century [[Conrad Henfling]] writing to [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|Leibniz]] about music theory and the tuning of [[musical instruments]] makes use of the [[Euclidean algorithm]] in his reasoning.<ref name="plusmaths">[http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue40/features/wardhaugh/index Musical pitch and Euclid's algorithm]</ref>
{{From Wikipedia|Euclidean rhythm}}
 
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