Proceedings of the symposium Around Set Theory
Subtitle: a French / American musicological meeting, IRCAM, October 15-16, 2003
By: edited by Moreno Andreatta, Jean-Michel Bardez and John Rahn
Contributors: Andreatta, Moreno; Bardez, Jean-Michel; Rahn, John; IRCAM (Research institute : France)
Series: Musique-sciences; Collection Musique/sciences
Publisher: Delatour; IRCAM-centre Pompidou
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sampzon; Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9782752100528; 9782844264015
Subjects: Mathematik; Musikalische Analyse; Mengenlehre; Music; Congresses; Mathematics; Music theory; Komposition (Musik)
Other titles: Around Set Theory
Notes: Proceedings from the Around set theory symposium held in Paris, France, Oct. 15-16, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The swerve and the flow : music's relationship to mathematics / John Rahn; title: The history of set theory from a European point of view / Luigi Verdi; title: Schoenberg's Opus 19 No. 4 : a set-theoretic perspective / Allen Forte; title: Using K-nets towards a transformational analysis of Schoenberg's Op. 19, No. 4 / Xavier Hascher; title: The rules of play : Milton Babbitt, set theory and twelve-tone composition / Andrew Mead; title: With Wanton Heed and Giddy Cunning : Milton Babbitt's "Allegro Penseroso" / Joseph Dubiel; title: Compositional theory, musical spaces, and compositional designs / Robert Morris; title: Formalisms and freedom of the imagination / André Riotte; title: Timespan hierarchies and post-tonal pitch structure : a composer's strategies / Paul Nauert; title: Surface elaborations of pitch-class sets through the manipulation of non-pitched parameters / Jason Eckardt; title: Allen Forte's set theory, neutral level analysis and poietics / Jean-Jacques Nattiez; title: Set theory and atonal harmony : essay on cohabitation and hierarchical figuring / Célestin Deliège; title: Advances and limits of set theory / Marcel Mesnage; title: What does it all mean? / John Rahn; title: The search for the number (Numb-er?) / Jean-Michel Bardez.