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The Computer and Music / ed. by Harry B. Lincoln.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1970Description: 1 online resource (372 p.) : 34 tables, 59 figuresContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501744167
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 789.7
LOC classification:
  • ML55
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustration -- Preface -- Contributors -- Part One: Historical Background -- I. Musicke's Handmaiden: Or Technologv In The Service Of The Arts -- Part Two: Music Composition -- II. From Musical Ideas To Computers And Back -- III. Ethics And Esthetics Of Computer Composition -- IV. Music Composed With Computers—A Historical Survey -- V. Muspec -- Part Three: Analysis Of Music -- VI. Webern's Use Of Motive In The Piano Variations -- VII. Toward A Theory Of Webemian Harmony, Via Analysis With A Digital Computer -- VIII. Harmony Before And After 1910: A Computer Comparison -- IX. Automated Discovery Of Similar Segments In The Forty-Eight Permutations Of A Twelve-Tone Row -- X. Fortran Music Programs Involving Numerically Related Tones -- XI. Theoretical Possibilities For Equally Tempered Musical Systems -- XII. Root Progression And Composer Identification -- Part Four: Ethnomusicology -- XIII. Computer-Aided Analysis Of Javanese Music -- XIV. Computer-Oriented Comparative Musicology -- Part Five: Music History And Style Analysis -- XV. Numerical Methods Of Comparing Musical Styles -- XVI. Music Style Analysis By Computer -- XVII. Toward A Comprehensive French Chanson Catalog -- XVIII. Transcription Of Tablature To Standard Notation -- XIX. A Test For Melodic Borrowings Among Notre Dame Organa Dupla -- Part Six: Music Information Retrieval -- XX. Mir—A Simple Programming Language For Musical Information Retrieval -- XXI. An Automated Music Library Catalog For Scores And Phonorecords -- Index
Summary: The first of its kind, this is book consists of twenty-one essays describing the many different uses of the digital computer in the field of music. Musicologists will find that various historical periods-from medieval to contemporary-are represented, and examples of computer analysis of ethnic music are considered. Edmund A. Bowles contributes an entertaining historical survey of music research and the computer. Lejaren Hill here discusses computer composition, both in this country and in Europe, and gives a bibliography of composers and their works. A. James Gabura's essay describes experiments in analyzing and identifying the keyboard styles of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. There is also a section of particular interest to music librarians.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustration -- Preface -- Contributors -- Part One: Historical Background -- I. Musicke's Handmaiden: Or Technologv In The Service Of The Arts -- Part Two: Music Composition -- II. From Musical Ideas To Computers And Back -- III. Ethics And Esthetics Of Computer Composition -- IV. Music Composed With Computers—A Historical Survey -- V. Muspec -- Part Three: Analysis Of Music -- VI. Webern's Use Of Motive In The Piano Variations -- VII. Toward A Theory Of Webemian Harmony, Via Analysis With A Digital Computer -- VIII. Harmony Before And After 1910: A Computer Comparison -- IX. Automated Discovery Of Similar Segments In The Forty-Eight Permutations Of A Twelve-Tone Row -- X. Fortran Music Programs Involving Numerically Related Tones -- XI. Theoretical Possibilities For Equally Tempered Musical Systems -- XII. Root Progression And Composer Identification -- Part Four: Ethnomusicology -- XIII. Computer-Aided Analysis Of Javanese Music -- XIV. Computer-Oriented Comparative Musicology -- Part Five: Music History And Style Analysis -- XV. Numerical Methods Of Comparing Musical Styles -- XVI. Music Style Analysis By Computer -- XVII. Toward A Comprehensive French Chanson Catalog -- XVIII. Transcription Of Tablature To Standard Notation -- XIX. A Test For Melodic Borrowings Among Notre Dame Organa Dupla -- Part Six: Music Information Retrieval -- XX. Mir—A Simple Programming Language For Musical Information Retrieval -- XXI. An Automated Music Library Catalog For Scores And Phonorecords -- Index

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The first of its kind, this is book consists of twenty-one essays describing the many different uses of the digital computer in the field of music. Musicologists will find that various historical periods-from medieval to contemporary-are represented, and examples of computer analysis of ethnic music are considered. Edmund A. Bowles contributes an entertaining historical survey of music research and the computer. Lejaren Hill here discusses computer composition, both in this country and in Europe, and gives a bibliography of composers and their works. A. James Gabura's essay describes experiments in analyzing and identifying the keyboard styles of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. There is also a section of particular interest to music librarians.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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