All About Music The Complete Ontology: Realities, Semiotics, Communication, and Embodiment /

• Main Authors: Mazzola, Guerino (Author), Mannone, Maria (Author), Pang, Yan (Author), O'Brien, Margaret (Author), Torunsky, Nathan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Computational Music Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Music.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; Mathematics.; Computer Science.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; Mathematics in Music.; Mathematics of Computing.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

This book explains music’s comprehensive ontology, its way of existence and processing, as specified in its compact characterization: music embodies meaningful communication and mediates physically between its emotional and mental layers. The book unfolds in a basic discourse in everyday language th...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Physical Reality
• Psychological Reality
• Mental Reality
• Generalities about Signs, Neumes, Periods and Development Sentences
• De Saussure and Peirce, the Semiotic Architecture, Digital vs. Analog Music Encoding
• Riemannian Harmony and The HarmonRubette Software
• De Saussure’s Six Dichotomies
• The Babushka Principle in Semiotics: Connotation, Motivation, Metatheory
• The Musical Case of Iterated Imbrication of Semiotic Components
• What Is Art?
• MIDI Code
• Global Music
• Gesture Theory in Music
• Frege’s Prison of Functions
• Music Without Scores. Neuroscience and Gestures
• Mathematical Gesture Theory
• Creativity Theory.