Musica Mathematica: Traditions and Innovations in Contemporary Music

ISBN-13: 9783631713815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 290 str.

Rima Povilioniene

Opis

The concept of musica mathematica seeks to accurately examine the intersection of two seemingly radically different subject areas. From the perspective of a European perception, the definition of the science of music was a result of the Pythagorean concept of universal harmony. The Pythagoreans were the first in European culture to raise the issue of uniting music and mathematics, sound and number. In the three parts of the monograph, versatile cases of the intersection of music and mathematics are displayed, moving from philosophical and aesthetic considerations about mathesis to practical studies, discussing the interaction between music and other kinds of art (architecture, painting, poetry and literature), and providing a practical research of contemporary music compositions.

Spis treści

A retrospective of the traditions of «musica mathematica», the renewal and innovations of mathematical techniques in 20th and 21st century music - The Pythagorean constructivism of universal music and its spread in the worldview of later periods - The semantic interpretation of the interaction between music and mathematics in mystic Middle Ages and the sacral Baroque - Constructive interaction between music and other arts

O autorze

Rima Povilionien holds a PhD in Musicology. She is a researcher at the International Semiotics Institute (ISI) at Kaunas University of Technology and an associate professor in the Department of Musicology of the Lithuanian Academy of Music.