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The Topos of Music: Geometric Logic of Concepts, Theory, and Performance

By Guerino Mazzola (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Birkhäuser Basel
Year
2002
ISBN
978-3-0348-9454-8, 978-3-0348-8141-8
DOI
10.1007/978-3-0348-8141-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
45 MB (46863046 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
1344\1307
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Applications of Mathematics; Algebraic Geometry; Mgeneral; Visualization; Geometry; Topology

Description

Topos of Music is an extensive and elaborate body of mathematical investigations into music and involves several and ontologically different levels of musical description. Albeit the author Guerino Mazzola lists 17 contributors and 2 collaborators, the book should be characterized as a monograph. Large portions of the content represent original research of Mazzola himself, and the material from other work is exposed from Mazzola's point of view and is well referenced. The preface preintimates an intended double meaning of the term topos in the title. On the one hand, it provides a mathematical anchor, which is programmatic for the entire approach: the concept of a cartesian closed category with a subobject classifier. (...) Zentralblatt MATH

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