Making Musical Time (Computational Music Science)

Mazzola, Guerino; Lubet, Alex; Pang, Yan; Goebel, Jordon; Rochester, Christopher; Dey, Sangeeta

ISBN 10: 3030856313 / ISBN 13: 9783030856311

Published by Springer, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Musical Time (Computational Music Science)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030856313
• ISBN 13: 9783030856311
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book is a comprehensive examination of the conception, perception, performance, and composition of time in music across time and culture. It surveys the literature of time in mathematics, philosophy, psychology, music theory, and somatic studies (medicine and disability studies) and looks ahead through original research in performance, composition, psychology, and education. It is the first monograph solely devoted to the theory of construction of musical time since Kramer in 1988, with new insights, mathematical precision, and an expansive global and historical context.

The mathematical methods applied for the construction of musical time are totally new. They relate to category theory (projective limits) and the mathematical theory of gestures. These methods and results extend the music theory of time but also apply to the applied performative understanding of making music. In addition, it is the very first approach to a constructive theory of time, deduced from the recent theory of musical gestures and their categories.

Making Musical Time is intended for a wide audience of scholars with interest in music. These include mathematicians, music theorists, (ethno)musicologists, music psychologists / educators / therapists, music performers, philosophers of music, audiologists, and acousticians.