Let s try to play the music and not the background. Ornette Coleman, liner notes of the LP Free Jazz 20] WhenIbegantocreateacourseonfreejazz, theriskofsuchanenterprise was immediately apparent: I knew that Cecil Taylor had failed to teach such a matter, and that for other, more academic instructors, the topic was still a sort of outlandish adventure. To be clear, we are not talking about tea- ing improvisation here a di?erent, and also problematic, matter rather, we wish to create a scholarly discourse about free jazz as a cultural achievement, and follow its genealogy from the American jazz...
Let s try to play the music and not the background. Ornette Coleman, liner notes of the LP Free Jazz 20] WhenIbegantocreateacourseonfreejazz, therisk...
This book is a first sketch of what the overall field of performance could look like as a modern scientific field but not its stylistically differentiated practice, pedagogy, and history. Musical performance is the most complex field of music. It comprises the study of a composition s expression in terms of analysis, emotion, and gesture, and then its transformation into embodied reality, turning formulaic facts into dramatic movements of human cognition. Combining these components in a creative way is a sophisticated mix of knowledge and mastery, which more resembles the cooking of...
This book is a first sketch of what the overall field of performance could look like as a modern scientific field but not its stylistically ...
This is the first monograph dedicated to this interdisciplinary research area, combining the views of music, computer science, education, creativity studies, psychology, and engineering. The contributions include introductions to ubiquitous music research, featuring theory, applications, and technological development, and descriptions of permanent community initiatives such as virtual forums, multi-institutional research projects, and collaborative publications.
The book will be of value to researchers and educators in all domains engaged with creativity, computing, music,...
This is the first monograph dedicated to this interdisciplinary research area, combining the views of music, computer science, education, creativit...
This first book on this topic is a comprehensive reference on the state of the art. The topics addressed include counterpoint, the first-species model, quasipolarities and interval dichotomies, graphs and transformations, and hypergesture homology. The theory presented also develops counterpoint models for new consonance-dissonance dichotomies. The book is suitable for graduate courses, the authors have a supporting Java implementation available online.
This first book on this topic is a comprehensive reference on the state of the art. The topics addressed include counterpoint, the first-species model...
The book opens with a short introduction to Indian music, in particular classical Hindustani music, followed by a chapter on the role of statistics in computational musicology. The authors then show how to analyze musical structure using Rubato, the music software package for statistical analysis, in particular addressing modeling, melodic similarity and lengths, and entropy analysis; they then show how to analyze musical performance. Finally, they explain how the concept of seminatural composition can help a music composer to obtain the opening line of a raga-based song using Monte Carlo...
The book opens with a short introduction to Indian music, in particular classical Hindustani music, followed by a chapter on the role of statistics...
This book offers a new approach to musical creativity, dealing with software and the semiotics and mathematical principles of creativity. The text is supported with musical score examples, and the authors' sound and video examples are freely available online.
This book offers a new approach to musical creativity, dealing with software and the semiotics and mathematical principles of creativity. The text is ...
Introducing mathematics for music theorists, this book covers basic topics such as sets and functions, universal properties, numbers and recursion, graphs, groups, rings, matrices and modules, continuity, calculus and gestures. Each concept is illustrated by examples from music theory, composition and gestural performance. Exercises are included.
Introducing mathematics for music theorists, this book covers basic topics such as sets and functions, universal properties, numbers and recursion, gr...
This book explains the state of the art in the use of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in music theory. In particular the author explains the DFT of distributions, homometry and the phase retrieval problem, nil Fourier coefficients and tilings, saliency, continuous spaces, the continuous Fourier transform, and phases of Fourier coefficients.
This is the first textbook dedicated to this subject, and with supporting examples and exercises this is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of music, computer science and engineering. The author has made online...
This book explains the state of the art in the use of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in music theory. In particular the author explains the D...
Tonal music, from a historical perspective, is far from homogenous; yet an enduring feature is a background "diatonic" system of exactly seven notes orderable cyclically by fifth. What is the source of the durability of the diatonic system, the octave of which is representable in terms of two particular integers, namely 12 and 7? And how is this durability consistent with the equally remarkable variety of musical styles -- or languages -- that the history of Western tonal music has taught us exist? This book is an attempt to answer these questions. Using mathematical tools to describe and...
Tonal music, from a historical perspective, is far from homogenous; yet an enduring feature is a background "diatonic" system of exactly seven notes o...
This is the first monograph dedicated to this interdisciplinary research area, combining the views of music, computer science, education, creativity studies, psychology, and engineering. The contributions include introductions to ubiquitous music research, featuring theory, applications, and technological development, and descriptions of permanent community initiatives such as virtual forums, multi-institutional research projects, and collaborative publications.
The book will be of value to researchers and educators in all domains engaged with creativity, computing, music,...
This is the first monograph dedicated to this interdisciplinary research area, combining the views of music, computer science, education, creativit...
