The Paradigmatic Discourse on presto ®

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

Chapter Chapter 49 in The Topos of Music, 2002, pp 945-953 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Graphical Input; Functional Scheme; Main Window; Local Score; Composition Strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8141-8_49

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