A Song to Symmetry - A Talk by Marcus du Sautoy

Bach’s student Mizler once described Bach’s music as the process of sounding mathematics. The Goldberg Variations are perhaps one of the most beautiful examples of Bach’s mathematical ideas at work. In this talk mathematician Marcus du Sautoy will explain how ideas of symmetry are at work throughout the variations. Like an audible Alhambra Bach plays with different symmetrical ideas to create the 30 variations that make up the piece.

Date: 27 January 2017, 12:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Hilary 2017)
Venue:
Holywell Music Room
Holywell Street OX1 3BN
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Details: Two disabled seats
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organising department: Faculty of Music
Organiser: Liz Green (University of Oxfod )
Host: Natalie Clein (Director of Performance, University of Oxford)
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Booking required?: Recommended
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Cost: £15 (Tickets include a lunchtime concert of Bach's Goldberg Variations)
Audience: Public
Editor: Elizabeth Green