Tonal Pitch Space

Tonal Pitch Space
Author: Fred Lerdahl
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2004-12-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199884404
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Building on the foundation of Lerdahl and Jackendoff's influential A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, this volume presents a multidimensional model of diatonic and chromatic spaces that quantifies listeners' intuitions of the relative distances of pitches, chords, and keys from a given tonic. The model is employed to assign prolongational structure, represent paths through the space, and compute patterns of tension and attraction as musical events unfold, thereby providing a partial basis for understanding musical narration, expectation, and expression. Conceived as both a music-theoretic treatise and a contribution to the cognitive science of music, this book will be of interest to music theorists, musicologists, composers, computer musicians, and cognitive psychologists.

An Exploration of Some Non-tonal Pitch-class Spaces with Implications for a Theory of Voice Leading

An Exploration of Some Non-tonal Pitch-class Spaces with Implications for a Theory of Voice Leading
Author: Michael F. Berry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2007
Genre: Musical analysis
ISBN: 9781109837315
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This dissertation develops a theoretical framework suitable for the analysis of neo-tonal music. Neo-tonal music fuses techniques of traditional tonality with elements of atonality: some representative composers include Debussy, Messiaen, and Stravinsky. Chapter one presents a modular-space approach to transformational voice leading and argues for a reconsideration of conventional approaches to pitch-class space. Chapter 2 provides us with the building blocks for pitch-class spaces, using the notion of maximally even sets as a point of departure. Some of the most common scales and sonorities in music are maximally even, or they deviate from maximal evenness ever so slightly. The chapter looks at the construction of maximally even sets and examines why maximally even structures are privileged. Chapter 3 uses maximally even sets as the building blocks for hierarchical pitch-class spaces similar to those discussed in Lerdahl (2001). These pitch-class spaces permit us to discuss the perceived distances between chords as well as to account for non-harmonic tones and chromaticism. Chapter 4 tackles the problem of pieces that feature different pitch-class spaces either presented successively or concurrently. Chapter 5 contains several analytical essays designed to show the theory in practice.

Musicology and Sister Disciplines

Musicology and Sister Disciplines
Author: International Musicological Society. Congress
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2000
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780198167341
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Drawing on the work of leading experts from around the globe, Musicology and Sister Disciplines provides the definitive, authoritative statement on the scope of musicology today and its relationship to other fields of academic endeavour, including philosophy and aesthetics, literary studies, art history, mathematics, computer science, historiography, and sociology. These groundbreaking papers represent the outcome of a major musicological conference in 1997, and include contributions from the philosopher Bernard Williams and world-famous mathematician Roger Penrose.

Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music

Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music
Author: Richard Kronland-Martinet
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 726
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030702103
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music, CMMR 2019, held in Marseille, France, in October 2019. The 46 full papers presented were selected from 105 submissions. The papers are grouped in 9 sections. The first three sections are related to music information retrieval, computational musicology and composition tools, followed by a section on notations and instruments distributed on mobile devices. The fifth section concerns auditory perception and cognition, while the three following sections are related to sound design and sonic and musical interactions. The last section contains contributions that relate to Jean-Claude Risset's research.

The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Riemannian Music Theories

The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Riemannian Music Theories
Author: Edward Gollin
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2011-12-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0195321332
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In recent years neo-Riemannian theory has established itself as the leading approach of our time, and has proven particularly adept at explaining features of chromatic music. The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Riemannian Music Theories assembles an international group of leading music theory scholars in an exploration of the music-analytical, theoretical, and historical aspects of this new field.

The Origins of Musicality

The Origins of Musicality
Author: Henkjan Honing
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0262538512
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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Research shows that all humans have a predisposition for music, just as they do for language. All of us can perceive and enjoy music, even if we can't carry a tune and consider ourselves “unmusical.” This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, appreciate, and make music. Scholars from biology, musicology, neurology, genetics, computer science, anthropology, psychology, and other fields consider what music is for and why every human culture has it; whether musicality is a uniquely human capacity; and what biological and cognitive mechanisms underlie it. Contributors outline a research program in musicality, and discuss issues in studying the evolution of music; consider principles, constraints, and theories of origins; review musicality from cross-cultural, cross-species, and cross-domain perspectives; discuss the computational modeling of animal song and creativity; and offer a historical context for the study of musicality. The volume aims to identify the basic neurocognitive mechanisms that constitute musicality (and effective ways to study these in human and nonhuman animals) and to develop a method for analyzing musical phenotypes that point to the biological basis of musicality. Contributors Jorge L. Armony, Judith Becker, Simon E. Fisher, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Bruno Gingras, Jessica Grahn, Yuko Hattori, Marisa Hoeschele, Henkjan Honing, David Huron, Dieuwke Hupkes, Yukiko Kikuchi, Julia Kursell, Marie-Élaine Lagrois, Hugo Merchant, Björn Merker, Iain Morley, Aniruddh D. Patel, Isabelle Peretz, Martin Rohrmeier, Constance Scharff, Carel ten Cate, Laurel J. Trainor, Sandra E. Trehub, Peter Tyack, Dominique Vuvan, Geraint Wiggins, Willem Zuidema

The Topos of Music

The Topos of Music
Author: Guerino Mazzola
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 1310
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 303488141X
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Critical Musicological Reflections

Critical Musicological Reflections
Author: Stan Hawkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317157176
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This collection of original essays is in tribute to the work of Derek Scott on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. As one of the leading lights in Critical Musicology, Scott has helped shape the epistemological direction for music research since the late 1980s. There is no doubt that the path taken by the critical musicologist has been a tricky one, leading to new conceptions, interactions, and heated debates during the past two decades. Changes in musicology during the closing decades of the twentieth century prompted the establishment of new sets of theoretical methods that probed at the social and cultural relevance of music, as much as its self-referentiality. All the scholars contributing to this book have played a role in the general paradigmatic shift that ensued in the wake of Kerman's call for change in the 1980s. Setting out to address a range of approaches to theorizing music and promulgating modes of analysis across a wide range of repertories, the essays in this collection can be read as a coming of age of critical musicology through its active dialogue with other disciplines such as sociology, feminism, ethnomusicology, history, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, aesthetics, media studies, film music studies, and gender studies. The volume provides music researchers and graduate students with an up-to-date authoritative reference to all matters dealing with the state of critical musicology today.

Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music

Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music
Author: Stefan Kostka
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351859226
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Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Fifth Edition provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first, it offers students a clear guide to understanding the diverse and innovative compositional strategies that emerged in the post-tonal era, from Impressionism to computer music. This updated fifth edition features: chapters revised throughout to include new examples from recent music and insights from the latest scholarship; the introduction of several new concepts and topics, including parsimonius voice-leading, scalar transformations, the New Complexity, and set theory in less chromatic contexts; expanded discussions of spectralism and electronic music; timelines in each chapter, grounding the music discussed in its chronological context; a companion website that provides students with links to recordings of musical examples discussed in the text and provides instructors with an instructor’s manual that covers all of the exercises in each chapter. Offering accessible explanations of complex concepts, Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Fifth Edition is an essential text for all students of post-tonal music theory.

Composition and Cognition

Composition and Cognition
Author: Fred Lerdahl
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520973259
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In Composition and Cognition, renowned composer and theorist Fred Lerdahl builds on his careerlong work of developing a comprehensive model of music cognition. Bringing together his dual expertise in composition and music theory, he reveals the way in which his research has served as a foundation for his compositional style and how his intuitions as a composer have guided his cognitively oriented theories. At times personal and reflective, this book offers an overall picture of the musical mind that has implications for central issues in contemporary composition, including the recurrent gap between method and result, and the tension between cognitive constraints and utopian aesthetic views of musical progress. Lerdahl’s succinct volume provides invaluable insights for students and instructors, composers and music scholars, and anyone engaged with contemporary music.