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Model skladby na základě pojmu funkce

Title in English Model of Composition on the Basis of the Concept of Function
Authors

RACLAVSKÝ Jiří

Year of publication 2000
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Ambiguity and Music
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Philosophy and religion
Keywords composition; model; mathematic; music
Description The main idea is the application of fundamental notion of human thinking, the notion of function, for explication (formalization) of (general) structure of musical compositions. There are two aims here: 1) optimal analyses of compositions, 2) the theory of constructing of compositions. The model of musical composition on the functional basis is of three levels: 1) the "elements" are tones, intervals, rhythms, timbres which 2) are ordered into "sequences", i.e., functions from numbers (time-points) to elements of a given type; this means that melody is a function (the musicological statement that melody is a set is inadequate), 3) there are also functions upon previous functions (we call them "Functions") which transform melody into another melody; they made us varying of music possible (this is the real job of artificial composers). Such a general theory should transcend particular musical theories and any other mathematical grasping of music. The computer-aided composition (analogously: analyses of compositions) do have to use the functional approach. Without functions, the composing (or analyzing) of music by a computer is still in the certain beginning.

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