The Topos of Music II: Performance

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This is the second volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The author explains his theory of musical performance, developed in the language of differential geometry, introducing performance vector fields that generalize tempo and intonation. The author also shows how Rubato, a software platform for composition, analysis, and performance, allows an experimental evaluation of principles of expressive performance theories. Front Matter ....Pages i-xlvii Front Matter ....Pages 545-545 Local and Global Performance Transformations (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 547-560 Performance Fields (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 561-571 Initial Sets and Initial Performances (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 573-584 Hierarchies and Performance Scores (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 585-599 Front Matter ....Pages 601-601 Taxonomy of Expressive Performance (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 603-613 Performance Grammars (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 615-620 Stemma Theory (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 621-635 Operator Theory (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 637-661 Front Matter ....Pages 663-663 Architecture (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 665-668 The RUBETTE® Family (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 669-686 Performance Experiments (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 687-703 Front Matter ....Pages 705-705 Analysis of Analysis (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 707-718 Differential Operators and Regression (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 719-742 Relating Tempo to Metric, Melodic and Harmonic Analyses in Chopin’s Prélude op. 28, No. 4 (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 743-748 Front Matter ....Pages 749-749 Principles of Music Critique (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 751-754 Critical Fibers (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 755-770 Front Matter ....Pages 771-771 Unfolding Geometry and Logic in Time (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 773-777 Local and Global Strategies in Composition (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 779-782 The Paradigmatic Discourse on presto® (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 783-790 Case Study I: “Synthesis” by Guerino Mazzola (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 791-800 Object-Oriented Programming in OpenMusic (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 801-821 Front Matter ....Pages 823-823 Historical and Theoretical Prerequisites (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 825-829 Estimation of Resolution Parameters (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 831-837 The Case of Counterpoint and Harmony (Guerino Mazzola)....Pages 839-840 Back Matter ....Pages 299-408