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The Topos of Music III: Gestures

Musical Multiverse Ontologies

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  • New element of the Topos book brings together progress in diverse field
  • Presents gesture theory, including a gesture philosophy for music, the mathematics of gestures, concept architectures and software for musical gesture theory, and the multiverse perspective
  • Presents applications of gesture theory, including counterpoint, modulation theory, and free jazz

Part of the book series: Computational Music Science (CMS)

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Gesture Philosophy for Music

  2. Mathematics of Gestures

  3. Concept Architectures and Software for Gesture Theory

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This is the third volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The authors present gesture theory, including a gesture philosophy for music, the mathematics of gestures, concept architectures and software for musical gesture theory, the multiverse perspective which reveals the relationship between gesture theory and the string theory in theoretical physics, and applications of gesture theory to a number of musical themes, including counterpoint, modulation theory, free jazz, Hindustani music, and vocal gestures.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Music, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Guerino Mazzola, Alex Lubet, Maria Mannone, Matt Rahaim

  • Université Diderot Paris 7, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris, France

    René Guitart

  • Department of Music, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Los Angeles, USA

    Jocelyn Ho

  • School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Florian Thalmann

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