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The Paradigmatic Discourse on presto ®

In: The Topos of Music

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  • Guerino Mazzola

    (University of Zurich, Department of Information Technology MultiMedia Laboratory)

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Summary The presto ® composition software was developed as a commercial implementation and operationalization of mathematical music theory. Several large compositions have been successfully realized on this software [48, 49, 338]. One of them will be discussed in chapter 50. We describe the overall architecture and functionality of presto ® This is mainly driven by a local/global paradigmatic perspective. The paradigmata of transformation and deformation are realized on (1) the level of modular affine transformations in the four-dimensional space of onset, pitch, duration, and loudness, and (2) the level of variational deformations. Both paradigmata are discussed and exemplified. We conclude the chapter with a remark on the problem of abstraction in paradigmatic composition, since composers tend to have major difficulties to get familiar with abstract paradigmatic structures.

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  • Guerino Mazzola, 2002. "The Paradigmatic Discourse on presto ®," Springer Books, in: The Topos of Music, chapter 0, pages 945-953, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-0348-8141-8_49
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8141-8_49
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