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Table of contents (54 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Orientation
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Front Matter
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Navigation on Concept Spaces
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Front Matter
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Local Theory
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Front Matter
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Global Theory
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Front Matter
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Keywords
Reviews
Topos of Music is an extensive and elaborate body of mathematical investigations into music and involves several and ontologically different levels of musical description. Albeit the author Guerino Mazzola lists 17 contributors and 2 collaborators, the book should be characterized as a monograph. Large portions of the content represent original research of Mazzola himself, and the material from other work is exposed from Mazzola's point of view and is well referenced. The preface preintimates an intended double meaning of the term topos in the title. On the one hand, it provides a mathematical anchor, which is programmatic for the entire approach: the concept of a cartesian closed category with a subobject classifier. (...)
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Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Topos of Music
Book Subtitle: Geometric Logic of Concepts, Theory, and Performance
Authors: Guerino Mazzola
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8141-8
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Birkh�user Verlag 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-5731-3Published: 23 September 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-8141-8Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XCVI, 1344
Topics: Applications of Mathematics, Philosophy of Science, Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, Mathematics, general, Visualization