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Exploring Musical Spaces: A Synthesis of Mathematical Approaches: Oxford Studies in Music Theory

Autor Julian Hook
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 dec 2022
Exploring Musical Spaces is a comprehensive synthesis of mathematical techniques in music theory, written with the aim of making these techniques accessible to music scholars without extensive prior training in mathematics. The book adopts a visual orientation, introducing from the outset a number of simple geometric models-the first examples of the musical spaces of the book's title-depicting relationships among musical entities of various kinds such as notes, chords, scales, or rhythmic values. These spaces take many forms and become a unifying thread in initiating readers into several areas of active recent scholarship, including transformation theory, neo-Riemannian theory, geometric music theory, diatonic theory, and scale theory. Concepts and techniques from mathematical set theory, graph theory, group theory, geometry, and topology are introduced as needed to address musical questions. Musical examples ranging from Bach to the late twentieth century keep the underlying musical motivations close at hand. The book includes hundreds of figures to aid in visualizing the structure of the spaces, as well as exercises offering readers hands-on practice with a diverse assortment of concepts and techniques.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190246013
ISBN-10: 0190246014
Pagini: 682
Dimensiuni: 187 x 256 x 37 mm
Greutate: 1.41 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Oxford Studies in Music Theory

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

The 'mathy' quality of much recent music theory has long been a barrier to its comprehension. No more. Julian Hook is a master explainer and, thanks to this book, music theorists and interested musicians now have an effective on-ramp not only to understanding but also to deep enjoyment of the rich regularities that can be heard to underpin musical experience.
Exploring Musical Spaces draws together the most important results in algebraic and geometric music theory of the last fifty years. Julian Hook's treatise, featuring the author's signature clarity and depth of insight, will open this dazzling field to a new generation of scholars.
For anyone looking for one book to read to help them better engage with or produce scholarship in mathematical music theory, I cannot recommend Exploring Musical Spaces highly enough.
Exploring Musical Spaces fills a necessary place in music-theory literature and is sure to be as important as the books by George Perle, Allen Forte, and David Lewin. Hook's cross-disciplinary double doctorates enable this book to be at such a high level.

Notă biografică

Julian Hook holds PhDs in both mathematics and music theory, as well as graduate degrees in architecture and piano performance. His work involving mathematical approaches to the study of music has appeared primarily in music theory journals but also at conferences of the American Mathematical Society and in the pages of Science. Since 2003 he has taught at Indiana University, where he is a former chair of the music theory department. He is a past president of Music Theory Midwest, and was the founding reviews editor of the Journal of Mathematics and Music.