A Physicist's view on Chopin's \'Etudes
Popular Physics
2017-07-31 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We propose the use of specific dynamical processes and more in general of ideas from Physics to model the evolution in time of musical structures. We apply this approach to two \'Etudes by F. Chopin, namely op.10 n.3 and op.25 n.1, proposing some original description based on concepts of symmetry breaking/restoration and quantum coherence, which could be useful for interpretation. In this analysis, we take advantage of colored musical scores, obtained by implementing Scriabin's color code for sounds to musical notation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1703.06765,
title = {A Physicist's view on Chopin's \'Etudes},
author = {Massimo Blasone},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06765},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
16 pages, 13 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of BEC2016