Leonhard Euler’s Theoretical Views on Music: Present Day Importance and a Few Perspectives
The article is devoted to the analysis of theoretical views on music expressed in the works by the famous Swiss scientist Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) who for a long time worked in Russia. Despite their understandable limitidness, they are remarkable for their heuristic significance and have remained important till nowadays. The authors highlight Euler’s rapprochements to the notion of information in music, his original interpretation of harmony problems, as well as of the relations between pitch and rhythm organization placed in the more general series of periodical processes.