The Topos of Music Geometric Logic of Concepts, Theory, and Performance

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mazzola, Guerino
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel Birkhäuser 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I Introduction and Orientation
  • 1 What is Music About?
  • 1.1 Fundamental Activities
  • 1.2 Fundamental Scientific Domains
  • 2 Topography
  • 2.1 Layers of Reality
  • 2.1.1 Physical Reality
  • 2.1.2 Mental Reality
  • 2.1.3 Psychological Reality
  • 2.2 Molino’s Communication Stream
  • 2.2.1 Creator and Poietic Level
  • 2.2.2 Work and Neutral Level
  • 2.2.3 Listener and Esthesic Level
  • 2.3 Semiosis
  • 2.3.1 Expressions
  • 2.3.2 Content
  • 2.3.3 The Process of Signification
  • 2.3.4 A Short Overview of Music Semiotics
  • 2.4 The Cube of Local Topography
  • 2.5 Topographical Navigation
  • 3 Musical Ontology
  • 3.1 Where is Music?
  • 3.2 Depth and Complexity
  • 4 Models and Experiments in Musicology
  • 4.1 Interior and Exterior Nature
  • 4.2 What Is a Musicological Experiment?
  • 4.3 Questions—Experiments of the Mind
  • 4.4 New Scientific Paradigms and Collaboratories
  • II Navigation on Concept Spaces
  • 5 Navigation
  • 5.1 Music in the EncycloSpace
  • 14.5 Simplicial Weights
  • 14.6 Categories of Commutative Global Compositions
  • 15 Global Classification
  • 15.1 Module Complexes
  • 15.1.1 Global Affine Functions
  • 15.1.2 Bilinear and Exterior Forms
  • 15.1.3 Deviation: Compositions vs. “Molecules”
  • 15.2 The Resolution of a Global Composition
  • 15.2.1 Global Standard Compositions
  • 15.2.2 Compositions from Module Complexes
  • 15.3 Orbits of Module Complexes Are Classifying
  • 15.3.1 Combinatorial Group Actions
  • 15.3.2 Classifying Spaces
  • 16 Classifying Interpretations
  • 16.1 Characterization of Interpretable Compositions
  • 16.1.1 Automorphism Groups of Interpretable Compositions
  • 16.1.2 A Cohomological Criterion
  • 16.2 Global Enumeration Theory
  • 16.2.1 Tesselation
  • 16.2.2 Mosaics
  • 16.2.3 Classifying Rational Rhythms and Canons
  • 16.3 Global American Set Theory
  • 16.4 Interpretable “Molecules”
  • 17 Esthetics and Classification
  • 17.1 Understanding by Resolution: An Illustrative Example
  • 12.2.1 Metrical Comparison
  • 12.2.2 Specialization Morphisms of Local Compositions
  • 12.3 The Problem of Sound Classification
  • 12.3.1 Topographic Determinants of Sound Descriptions
  • 12.3.2 Varieties of Sounds
  • 12.3.3 Semiotics of Sound Classification
  • 12.4 Making the Vague Precise
  • IV Global Theory
  • 13 Global Compositions
  • 13.1 The Local-Global Dichotomy in Music
  • 13.1.1 Musical and Mathematical Manifolds
  • 13.2 What Are Global Compositions?
  • 13.2.1 The Nerve of an Objective Global Composition
  • 13.3 Functorial Global Compositions
  • 13.4 Interpretations and the Vocabulary of Global Concepts
  • 13.4.1 Iterated Interpretations
  • 13.4.2 The Pitch Domain: Chains of Thirds, Ecclesiastical Modes, Triadic and Quaternary Degrees
  • 13.4.3 Interpreting Time: Global Meters and Rhythms
  • 13.4.4 Motivic Interpretations: Melodies and Themes
  • 14 Global Perspectives
  • 14.1 Musical Motivation
  • 14.2 Global Morphisms
  • 14.3 Local Domains
  • 14.4 Nerves
  • 23.2 Paul Hindemith
  • 23.3 Heinrich Schenker and Friedrich Salzer
  • 24 Harmonic Topology
  • 24.1 Chord Perspectives
  • 24.1.1 Euler Perspectives
  • 24.1.2 12-tempered Perspectives
  • 24.1.3 Enharmonic Projection
  • 24.2 Chord Topologies
  • 24.2.1 Extension and Intension
  • 24.2.2 Extension and Intension Topologies
  • 24.2.3 Faithful Addresses
  • 24.2.4 The Saturation Sheaf
  • 25 Harmonic Semantics
  • 25.1 Harmonic Signs—Overview
  • 25.2 Degree Theory
  • 25.2.1 Chains of Thirds
  • 25.2.2 American Jazz Theory
  • 25.2.3 Hans Straub: General Degrees in General Scales
  • 25.3 Function Theory
  • 25.3.1 Canonical Morphemes for European Harmony
  • 25.3.2 Riemann Matrices
  • 25.3.3 Chains of Thirds
  • 25.3.4 Tonal Functions from Absorbing Addresses
  • 26 Cadence
  • 26.1 Making the Concept Precise
  • 26.2 Classical Cadences Relating to 12-tempered Intonation
  • 26.2.1 Cadences in Triadic Interpretations of Diatonic Scales
  • 26.2.2 Cadences in More General Interpretations
  • 28.1.2 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Zauberflöte”, Choir of Priests
  • 28.1.3 Claude Debussy: “Préludes”, Livre 1, No.4
  • 28.2 Modulation in Beethoven’s Sonata op.106, 1stMovement
  • 2
  • 7.5 Alterations Are Tangents
  • 7.5.1 The Theorem of Mason—Mazzola
  • 8 Symmetries and Morphisms
  • 8.1 Symmetries in Music
  • 8.1.1 Elementary Examples
  • 8.2 Morphisms of Local Compositions
  • 8.3 Categories of Local Compositions
  • 8.3.1 Commenting the Concatenation Principle
  • 8.3.2 Embedding and Addressed Adjointness
  • 8.3.3 Universal Constructions on Local Compositions
  • 8.3.4 The Address Question
  • 8.3.5 Categories of Commutative Local Compositions
  • 9 Yoneda Perspectives
  • 9.1 Morphisms Are Points
  • 9.2 Yoneda’s Fundamental Lemma
  • 9.3 The Yoneda Philosophy
  • 9.4 Understanding Fine and Other Arts
  • 9.4.1 Painting and Music
  • 9.4.2 The Art of Object-Oriented Programming
  • 10 Paradigmatic Classification
  • 10.1 Paradigmata in Musicology, Linguistics, and Mathematics
  • 10.2 Transformation
  • 10.3 Similarity
  • 10.4 Fuzzy Concepts in the Humanities
  • 11 Orbits
  • 11.1 Gestalt and Symmetry Groups
  • 11.2 The Framework for Local Classification
  • 5.2 Receptive Navigation
  • 5.3 Productive Navigation
  • 6 Denotators
  • 6.1 Universal Concept Formats
  • 6.1.1 First Naive Approach To Denotators
  • 6.1.2 Interpretations and Comments
  • 6.1.3 Ordering Denotators and ‘Concept Leafing’
  • 6.2 Forms
  • 6.2.1 Variable Addresses
  • 6.2.2 Formal Definition
  • 6.2.3 Discussion of the Form Typology
  • 6.3 Denotators
  • 6.3.1 Formal Definition of a Denotator
  • 6.4 Anchoring Forms in Modules
  • 6.4.1 First Examples and Comments on Modules in Music
  • 6.5 Regular and Circular Forms
  • 6.6 Regular Denotators
  • 6.7 Circular Denotators
  • 6.8 Ordering on Forms and Denotators
  • 6.8.1 Concretizations and Applications
  • 6.9 Concept Surgery and Denotator Semantics
  • III Local Theory
  • 7 Local Compositions
  • 7.1 The Objects of Local Theory
  • 7.2 First Local Music Objects
  • 7.2.1 Chords and Scales
  • 7.2.2 Local Meters and Local Rhythms
  • 7.2.3 Motives
  • 7.3 Functorial Local Compositions
  • 7.4 First Elements of Local Theory
  • 17.2 Varese’s Program and Yoneda’s Lemma
  • 18 Predicates
  • 18.1 What Is the Case: The Existence Problem
  • 18.1.1 Merging Systematic and Historical Musicology
  • 18.2 Textual and Paratextual Semiosis
  • 18.2.1 Textual and Paratextual Signification
  • 18.3 Textuality
  • 18.3.1 The Category of Denotators.-18.3.2 Textual Semiosis
  • 18.3.3 Atomic Predicates
  • 18.3.4 Logical and Geometric Motivation
  • 18.4 Paratextuality
  • 19 Topoi of Music
  • 19.1 The Grothendieck Topology
  • 19.1.1 Cohomology
  • 19.1.2 Marginalia on Presheaves
  • 19.2 The Topos of Music: An Overview
  • 20 Visualization Principles
  • 20.1 Problems
  • 20.2 Folding Dimensions
  • 20.2.1 ?2 ? ?
  • 20.2.1 ?n ? ?
  • 20.2.3 An Explicit Construction of ? with Special Values
  • 20.3 Folding Denotators
  • 20.3.1 Folding Limits
  • 20.3.2 Folding Colimits
  • 20.3.3 Folding Powersets
  • 20.3.4 Folding Circular Denotators
  • 20.4 Compound Parametrized Objects
  • 20.5 Examples
  • V Topologies for Rhythm and Motives
  • 26.3 Cadences in Self-addressed Tonalities of Morphology
  • 26.4 Self-addressed Cadences by Symmetries and Morphisms
  • 26.5 Cadences for Just Intonation
  • 26.5.1 Tonalities in Third-Fifth Intonation
  • 26.5.2 Tonalities in Pythagorean Intonation
  • 27 Modulation
  • 27.1 Modeling Modulation by Particle Interaction
  • 27.1.1 Models and the Anthropic Principle
  • 27.1.2 Classical Motivation and Heuristics
  • 27.1.3 The General Background
  • 27.1.4 The Well-Tempered Case
  • 27.1.5 Reconstructing the Diatonic Scale from Modulation
  • 27.1.6 The Case of Just Tuning
  • 27.1.7 Quantized Modulations and Modulation Domains for Selected Scales
  • 27.2 Harmonic Tension
  • 27.2.1 The Riemann Algebra
  • 27.2.2 Weights on the Riemann Algebra
  • 27.2.3 Harmonic Tensions from Classical Harmony?
  • 27.2.4 Optimizing Harmonic Paths
  • 28 Applications
  • 28.1 First Examples
  • 28.1.1 Johann Sebastian Bach: Choral from “Himmelfahrtsoratorium”
  • 11.3 Orbits of Elementary Structures
  • 11.3.1 Classification Techniques
  • 11.3.2 The Local Classification Theorem
  • 11.3.3 The Finite Case
  • 11.3.4 Dimension
  • 11.3.5 Chords
  • 11.3.6 Empirical Harmonic Vocabularies
  • 11.3.7 Self-addressed Chords
  • 11.3.8 Motives
  • 11.4 Enumeration Theory
  • 11.4.1 Pólya and de Bruijn Theory
  • 11.4.2 Big Science for Big Numbers
  • 11.5 Group-theoretical Methods in Composition and Theory
  • 11.5.1 Aspects of Serialism
  • 11.5.2 The American Tradition
  • 11.6 Esthetic Implications of Classification
  • 11.6.1 Jakobson’s Poetic Function
  • 11.6.2 Motivic Analysis: Schubert/Stolberg “Lied auf dem Wasser zu singen...”
  • 11.6.3 Composition: Mazzola/Baudelaire “La mort des artistes”
  • 11.7 Mathematical Reflections on Historicity in Music
  • 11.7.1 Jean-Jacques Nattiez’ Paradigmatic Theme
  • 11.7.2 Groups as a Parameter of Historicity
  • 12 Topological Specialization
  • 12.1 What Ehrenfels Neglected
  • 12.2 Topology
  • 21 Metrics and Rhythmics
  • 21.1 Review of Riemann and Jackendoff—Lerdahl Theories
  • 21.1.1 Riemann’s Weights
  • 21.1.2 Jackendoff—Lerdahl: Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Time Structures
  • 21.2 Topologies of Global Meters and Associated Weights
  • 21.3 Macro-Events in the Time Domain
  • 22 Motif Gestalts
  • 22.1 Motivic Interpretation
  • 22.2 Shape Types
  • 22.2.1 Examples of Shape Types
  • 22.3 Metrical Similarity
  • 22.3.1 Examples of Distance Functions
  • 22.4 Paradigmatic Groups
  • 22.4.1 Examples of Paradigmatic Groups
  • 22.5 Pseudo-metrics on Orbits
  • 22.6 Topologies on Gestalts
  • 22.6.1 The Inheritance Property
  • 22.6.2 Cognitive Aspects of Inheritance
  • 22.6.3 Epsilon Topologies
  • 22.7 First Properties of the Epsilon Topologies
  • 22.7.1 Toroidal Topologies
  • 22.8 Rudolph Reti’s Motivic Analysis Revisited
  • 22.8.1 Review of Concepts
  • 22.8.2 Reconstruction
  • 22.9 Motivic Weights
  • VI Harmony
  • 23 Critical Preliminaries
  • 23.1 Hugo Riemann