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This book explains music's comprehensive ontology, its way of existence and processing, as specified in its compact characterization: music embodies meaningful communication and mediates physically between its emotional and mental layers. The book unfolds in a basic discourse in everyday language that is accessible to everybody who wants to understand what this topic is about. Musical ontology is delayed in its fundamental dimensions: its realities, its meaningful communication, and its embodied utterance from musical creators to an interested audience.
The authors' approach is applicable to every musical genre and is scientific, the book is suitable for non-musicians and non-scientists alike.
List of contents
Introduction.- Physical Reality.- Psychological Reality.- Mental Reality.- Generalities about Signs, Neumes, Periods and Development Sentences.- De Saussure and Peirce, the Semiotic Architecture, Digital vs. Analog Music Encoding.- Riemannian Harmony and The HarmonRubette Software.- De Saussure's Six Dichotomies.- The Babushka Principle in Semiotics: Connotation, Motivation, Metatheory.- The Musical Case of Iterated Imbrication of Semiotic Components.- What Is Art?.- MIDI Code.- Global Music.- Gesture Theory in Music.- Frege's Prison of Functions.- Music Without Scores. Neuroscience and Gestures.- Mathematical Gesture Theory.- Creativity Theory.
About the author
Linshujie Zheng is a soprano. She has a master's degree with distinction at Cardiff University. Currently she pursues a doctoral degree in voice at the University of Minnesota. Zheng has received awards and scholarships in China, the UK, and the US. She has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Wales Millennium centre, and St David's Hall. She also sung principal roles, including Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Genovieve in Suor Angelica, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. Zheng not only focuses on the performing arts, she also has a passion for Gesture and reception theory.
Guerino Mazzola qualified as a professor in mathematics and in computational science at the University of Zürich. Visiting professor at the ENS in Paris in 2005. Since 2007 professor at the School of Music, University of Minnesota. He developed a Mathematical Music Theory and music software presto and Rubato. 2007-2021 he was the president of the Societyfor Mathematics and Computation in Music. He has published 33 books and 150 papers, 27 jazz CDs, two DVDs, and a classical sonata. His most important book is "The Topos of Music", about mathematical music, performance, and gesture theory.
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This book explains music’s comprehensive ontology, its way of existence and processing, as specified in its compact characterization: music embodies meaningful communication and mediates physically between its emotional and mental layers. The book unfolds in a basic discourse in everyday language that is accessible to everybody who wants to understand what this topic is about. Musical ontology is delayed in its fundamental dimensions: its realities, its meaningful communication, and its embodied utterance from musical creators to an interested audience.
The authors' approach is applicable to every musical genre and is scientific, the book is suitable for non-musicians and non-scientists alike.
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“This is an excellent book that comprehensively deals with various aspects of music. … Throughout the work, each chapter begins with a detailed summary that assists the reader. The pictures, figures, and tables are of excellent quality. In addition, a valuable list of references is provided for further research. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.” (M. G. Prasad, Choice, Vol. 57 (11), July, 2017)
“The book is highly recommended as a general introduction to these four subjects as related to music because it delivers the information in an accessible language. The authors’ approach is applicable to every musical genre, in a manner suitable for nonmusicians and nonscientists alike.” (C. Delrieux, Computing Reviews, January, 22 , 2018)
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"This is an excellent book that comprehensively deals with various aspects of music. ... Throughout the work, each chapter begins with a detailed summary that assists the reader. The pictures, figures, and tables are of excellent quality. In addition, a valuable list of references is provided for further research. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers." (M. G. Prasad, Choice, Vol. 57 (11), July, 2017)
"The book is highly recommended as a general introduction to these four subjects as related to music because it delivers the information in an accessible language. The authors' approach is applicable to every musical genre, in a manner suitable for nonmusicians and nonscientists alike." (C. Delrieux, Computing Reviews, January, 22 , 2018)
