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Mazzola, Guerino
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Noll, Thomas
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Contents
1
What is Mathematical Music Theory?
1.1
Historical and Transdisciplinary Anchors
1.2
Epistemological and Pragmatic Considerations
2
>Classical< MaMuTh-Achievements
2.1
Wellformed Tone Systems
2.2
Structure Theory of Consonance and Dissonance
2.3
Transformation and Voice Leading Parsimony
3
Metalanguage and Internal Logics
3.1
Transformational Logics
3.2
The Logics of Projecting
3.3
Analytical Example: Scriabin’s Study Op. 65 No. 3
1
Introduction
2
Mozart’s Dice Game.
3
Birkhoff’s Aesthetic Measure.
4
Fibonacci Numbers and Bartók.
5
Mazzola’s Mathematical Music Theory.
6
General Aesthetical and Ethical Considerations on Mathematics and Music.
1
Models
1.1
What Are Models?
1.2
Modulation
1.3
Counterpoint
1.4
Performance
2
Concepts
2.1
Generalization of Common Structures
2.2
Forms
2.3
Conceptual Galois Theory
2.4
Denotators
2.5
The RUBATO Enterprise
3
Local and Global Compositions
3.1
Categories of Local Compositions
3.2
Finite Completeness
3.3
Categories of Global Compositions
3.4
Grothendieck Topology and Cohomology
4
Classification
4.1
Enumeration Theory
4.2
Standard Objects
4.3
Global Compositions from Coefficient Systems
4.4
Orbit Spaces and Classifying Schemes
5
Towards Grand Unification
5.1
An Isomorphism Between Instances of Harmony and Counterpoint
5.2
Conclusion and Preview
1
Introduction
2
Form Semiotics
3
The Category of Form Semiotics
4
Galois Correspondence of Form Semiotics
1
Introduction
2
>>Encylospace<< and Universal Concept Formats
3
Forms
4
Denotators
5
Local Compositions
6
Morphisms of Local Compositions
7
Examples of Forms, Denotators and Local Compositions
7.1
Modules in Musicology
7.2
Examples of Local Compositions
8
The Form
Pianoscore
and the Denotator
Tr
äumerei
9
Examples for Morphisms of Local Compositions
9.1
Example: Transposition (Key Change)
9.2
Example: Inversion with Retrograde
10
Epilogue
1
Introduction
2
Related Work
3
Gesture Spaces
3.1
Symbolic and Physical Gesture Curves
3.2
Towards Calculation of Physical Gesture Curves
4
Construction of Symbolic Gesture Curves
4.1
Fingers Moving at Infinite Speed
4.2
Curve Subdivision and Construction
4.3
Freezing a Symbolic Gesture Curve
5
Results
6
Conclusions and Future Work
7
Acknowledgements
1
Introduction
2
Two Basic Requirements
3
Complex Shape Generation
4
Object-Oriented Theory of Geometry
5
Transfer
6
Wreath Products
7
Mathematical Theory of Transfer
8
Theory of Gestalt
9
Shape Generation by Group Extensions
10
Algebraic Theory of Inheritance
11
Theory of Relative Motion
12
Serial-Link Manipulators
13
Musical Modulation
14
Recoverability
15
Theory of Symmetry-Breaking
16
New Foundations to Geometry
17
Rigorous Theory of Aesthetics
18
Inferred Starting States
19
Musical Meter
20
Complex Shape
21
Theory of Musical Composition
1
Introduction
2
Enumeration of Non-Isomorphic Mosaics
3
Enumeration of Non-Isomorphic Canons
4
Enumeration of Rhythmic Tiling Canons
5
Some Results on Regular Complementary Canons of Maximal Category
1
Introductory remarks on the role of group theory in music
2
The Minkowski-Hajós Problem
3
List of Hajós groups
4
Conclusion
5
Aknowledgements
1
What Is this All About ? Paving the Way
1.1
Rhythmic Canons and Tiling
1.2
Loops and Lines
1.3
Aperiodic Canons
2
Older Results
2.1
Why Infinite Tiles are Less Interesting
2.2
Repetition
2.3
Affine Transformation within a Fixed Period
2.4
Hajós groups and Vuza canons
2.5
Reduction
2.6
Equirepartition
3
Recent Results
3.1
Around Cyclotomic Polynomials
4
Polyrhythmic Canons and Future Results
4.1
Johnsons’s Question and the Number 15
4.2
A Tiny Step in an Unexpected Direction
4.3
Prospects
1
Introduction
2
The >>Rhythmic Oddity Property<<
3
Construction of asymmetric pairs
4
Counting the solutions
5
Results
1
Performance Grammars
2
Analytical Stemmas
3
Consequence for the choice of Statistical Models
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Mazzola, Guerino
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Noll, Thomas
/ Lluis-Puebla, Emilio: Perspectives in Mathematical and Computational Music Theory