The Topos of Music III: Gestures: Musical Multiverse Ontologies

The Topos of Music III: Gestures: Musical Multiverse Ontologies
ISBN-10
3319644815
ISBN-13
9783319644813
Category
Mathematics
Pages
604
Language
English
Published
2018-03-28
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Guerino Mazzola, Maria Mannone, Florian Thalmann

Description

This is the third volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The authors present gesture theory, including a gesture philosophy for music, the mathematics of gestures, concept architectures and software for musical gesture theory, the multiverse perspective which reveals the relationship between gesture theory and the string theory in theoretical physics, and applications of gesture theory to a number of musical themes, including counterpoint, modulation theory, free jazz, Hindustani music, and vocal gestures.

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