Local and Global Strategies in Composition

Guerino Mazzola ()
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Guerino Mazzola: University of Zurich, Department of Information Technology MultiMedia Laboratory

Chapter Chapter 48 in The Topos of Music, 2002, pp 939-943 from Springer

Abstract: Summary This chapter sketches the compositional process between paradigmatic selection and syntagmatic combination within the musical sign system. Apart from these semiotic perspectives, the process is characterized by a “dialectic” interrelation of local and global criteria. These features—well known from the general structure theory of global compositions—reappear in the special light of poiesis: The construction of a composition resembles the step-by-step completion of a puzzle of logical units, distributed in syntagmatic time, and selected to optimize association to already placed units. This activity is remunerative and fed back by a successive accumulation of poetical semantics.

Keywords: Global Strategy; Local Composition; Local Chart; Global Criterion; Motif Class (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8141-8_48

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