Music: A Mathematical Offering

Music: A Mathematical Offering

Author: Dave Benson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0521853877

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This book explores the interaction between music and mathematics including harmony, symmetry, digital music and perception of sound.


Performing Brahms

Performing Brahms

Author: Michael Musgrave

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-02

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780521652735

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A great deal of evidence survives about how Brahms and his contemporaries performed his music. But much of this evidence - found in letters, autograph scores, treatises, publications, recordings, and more - has been hard to access, both for musicians and for scholars. This book brings the most important evidence together into one volume. It also includes discussions by leading Brahms scholars of the many issues raised by the evidence. The period spanned by the life of Brahms and the following generation saw a crucial transition in performance style. As a result, modern performance practices differ significantly from those of Brahms's time. By exploring the musical styles and habits of Brahms's era, this book will help musicians and scholars understand Brahms's music better and bring fresh ideas to present-day performance. The value of the book is greatly enhanced by the accompanying CD of historic recordings - including a performance by Brahms himself.


Ethics for the Information Age

Ethics for the Information Age

Author: Michael Jay Quinn

Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13:

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Widely praised for its balanced treatment of computer ethics, Ethics for the Information Age offers a modern presentation of the moral controversies surrounding information technology. Topics such as privacy and intellectual property are explored through multiple ethical theories, encouraging readers to think critically about these issues and to make their own ethical decisions.


Microsound

Microsound

Author: Curtis Roads

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2004-08-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0262681544

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Below the level of the musical note lies the realm of microsound, of sound particles lasting less than one-tenth of a second. Recent technological advances allow us to probe and manipulate these pinpoints of sound, dissolving the traditional building blocks of music—notes and their intervals—into a more fluid and supple medium. The sensations of point, pulse (series of points), line (tone), and surface (texture) emerge as particle density increases. Sounds coalesce, evaporate, and mutate into other sounds. Composers have used theories of microsound in computer music since the 1950s. Distinguished practitioners include Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis. Today, with the increased interest in computer and electronic music, many young composers and software synthesis developers are exploring its advantages. Covering all aspects of composition with sound particles, Microsound offers composition theory, historical accounts, technical overviews, acoustical experiments, descriptions of musical works, and aesthetic reflections.


Guide to Computing for Expressive Music Performance

Guide to Computing for Expressive Music Performance

Author: Alexis Kirke

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1447141237

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This book discusses all aspects of computing for expressive performance, from the history of CSEMPs to the very latest research, in addition to discussing the fundamental ideas, and key issues and directions for future research. Topics and features: includes review questions at the end of each chapter; presents a survey of systems for real-time interactive control of automatic expressive music performance, including simulated conducting systems; examines two systems in detail, YQX and IMAP, each providing an example of a very different approach; introduces techniques for synthesizing expressive non-piano performances; addresses the challenges found in polyphonic music expression, from a statistical modelling point of view; discusses the automated analysis of musical structure, and the evaluation of CSEMPs; describes the emerging field of embodied expressive musical performance, devoted to building robots that can expressively perform music with traditional instruments.


Music and Science in the Age of Galileo

Music and Science in the Age of Galileo

Author: V. Coelho

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1992-11-30

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780792320289

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A collection of essays exploring the relations between music and the scientific culture of Galileo's time. It takes a broad historical approach towards understanding such topics as the role of music in Galileo's experiments and in the scientific revolution


Instruments for New Music

Instruments for New Music

Author: Thomas Patteson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0520288025

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Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium