Your mission, should you choose to accept it…
See also "Mapping Music" from Harvard Magazine , Jan.-Feb. 2007—
"Life inside an orbifold is a non-Euclidean world"
— as well as the cover story "The Shape of Music" from Princeton Alumni Weekly ,
Feb. 9, 2011, and "Bead Game" + music in this journal (click, then scroll down).
Those impressed by the phrase "non-Euclidean" may also enjoy
Non-Euclidean Blocks and Pilate Goes to Kindergarten.
The "Bead Game" + music search above includes, notably, a passage describing a
sort of non-Euclidean abacus in the classic 1943 story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves."
For a visually related experience, see the video "Chord Geometries Demo: Chopin
on a Mobius Strip" at a music.princeton.edu web page.
* Motto of the American Mathematical Society, said to be also the motto of Plato's Academy.
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