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Proceedings of the symposium Around Set Theory : a French / American musicological meeting, IRCAM, October 15-16, 2003 / edited by Moreno Andreatta, Jean-Michel Bardez and John Rahn.

Title
  1. Proceedings of the symposium Around Set Theory : a French / American musicological meeting, IRCAM, October 15-16, 2003 / edited by Moreno Andreatta, Jean-Michel Bardez and John Rahn.
Published by
  1. Sampzon : Delatour; Paris : IRCAM-centre Pompidou, 2008.
Author
  1. Around Set Theory (2003 : Paris, France)

Details

Additional authors
  1. Andreatta, Moreno.
  2. Bardez, Jean-Michel.
  3. IRCAM (Research institute : France)
  4. Rahn, John.
Description
  1. ix, 267 p. : ill., music; 26 cm.
Series statement
  1. Musique-sciences
Uniform title
  1. Collection Musique/sciences.
Alternative title
  1. Around Set Theory
Subject
  1. Komposition (Musik)
  2. Mathematik
  3. Mengenlehre
  4. Music > Mathematics > Congresses
  5. Music theory > Congresses
  6. Musikalische Analyse
  7. Set theory > Congresses
Genre/Form
  1. Conference papers and proceedings
Contents
  1. The swerve and the flow : music's relationship to mathematics / John Rahn -- The history of set theory from a European point of view / Luigi Verdi -- Schoenberg's Opus 19 No. 4 : a set-theoretic perspective / Allen Forte -- Using K-nets towards a transformational analysis of Schoenberg's Op. 19, No. 4 / Xavier Hascher -- The rules of play : Milton Babbitt, set theory and twelve-tone composition / Andrew Mead -- With Wanton Heed and Giddy Cunning : Milton Babbitt's "Allegro Penseroso" / Joseph Dubiel -- Compositional theory, musical spaces, and compositional designs / Robert Morris -- Formalisms and freedom of the imagination / André Riotte -- Timespan hierarchies and post-tonal pitch structure : a composer's strategies / Paul Nauert -- Surface elaborations of pitch-class sets through the manipulation of non-pitched parameters / Jason Eckardt -- Allen Forte's set theory, neutral level analysis and poietics / Jean-Jacques Nattiez -- Set theory and atonal harmony : essay on cohabitation and hierarchical figuring / Célestin Deliège -- Advances and limits of set theory / Marcel Mesnage -- What does it all mean? / John Rahn -- The search for the number (Numb-er?) / Jean-Michel Bardez.
Note
  1. Proceedings from the Around set theory symposium held in Paris, France, Oct. 15-16, 2003.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Processing action (note)
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