Music, Gestalt, and Computing：Studies in Cognitive and Systematic Musicology (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Thisbookpresentsacoherentstate-of-the-artsurveyontheareaofsystematicandcognitivemusicologywhichhasenjoyeddynamicgrowthnowformanyyears.Itisdevotedtoexploringtherelationshipsbetweenacoustics,humaninformationprocessing,andcultureaswellastomethodologicalissuesraisedbythewidespreaduseofcomputersasapowerfultoolfortheoryconstruction,theorytesting,andthemanipulationofmusicalinformationoranykindofdatamanipulationrelatedtomusic.ThebookcomeswithaCDprovidingsoundexamplesforvariouschapters;itcontainsacomprehensivenameandsubjectindexandthefollowingchapters:Gestalttheoryrevisited,frompitchtoharmony,fromrhythmtoexpectation,fromtimbretotexture,frommusicalexpressiontointeractivecomputersystems.