Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (Harmonologia Series, No 6) (Harmonologia Series, No 6)
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A very difficult book even for experienced musicians, due to complex high mathematics terms and explanations (you will need any degree of math training for understanding some concepts displayed in this book). However, there are several chapters with interesting information and ideas to be applied in your own music or analysis approach. For instance, chapters XI and XII (titled "Sieves" and "Sieves: A User's Guide") have an interesting and clear (the most one of entire book) explanation about a fundamental tool in Xenakis music as is sieve theory, which can be applied to several music parameters such as pitch, duration or intensity, etc. Other chapters as XIII and XIV can be useful if you are interested in synthesis or computer-based synthesis software such as Csound and Common Lisp or another synthesis programming language.
Rather than difficulty of this book, I think the main problem is about how useful can be this book for 70's and 80's Xenakis repertoire. The book is mainly focused and written for mid 50's and 60's Xenakis music (works such as Metastaseis, Pithoprakta, Achorripsis, etc) and can be disappointing if you are interested in 70's Xenakis music (for me, his most interesting period}. |
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