The Topos of Music II: Performance Theory, Software, and Case Studies

This is the second volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The author explains his theory of musical performance, developed in the language of differential geometry, introducing performance vector fields that generalize tempo and intonation. The author also shows h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mazzola, Guerino
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:2nd ed. 2017
Series:Computational Music Science
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This is the second volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The author explains his theory of musical performance, developed in the language of differential geometry, introducing performance vector fields that generalize tempo and intonation. The author also shows how Rubato, a software platform for composition, analysis, and performance, allows an experimental evaluation of principles of expressive performance theories
Physical Description:XLVII, 408 p online resource
ISBN:9783319644448