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This book unfolds the manifold, complex and intertwined relations between Fuzzy Logic and music in a first comprehensive overview on this topic: systematically as an outline, as completely as possible, in the aspects of Fuzzy Logic in this relation, and especially in music as a process with three main phases, five anthropological layers, and thirteen forms of existence of the art work (Classics, Jazz, Pop, Folklore). Being concerned with the ontological, gnoseological, psychological, and (music-) aesthetical status and the relative importance of different phenomena of relationship between music and Fuzzy Logic, the explication follows the four main principles (with five phenotypes) of Fuzzy Logic with respect to music: similarity, sharpening 1 as filtering, sharpening 2 as crystallization, blurring, and variation. The book reports on years of author’s research on topics that have been only little explored so far in the area of Music and Fuzzy Logic. It merges concepts of musicanalysis with fuzzy logical modes of thinking, in a unique way that is expected to attract both specialists of music and specialists of Fuzzy Logic, and also non-specialists in both fields. The book introduces the concept of dialectic between sharpening and – conscious – “blurring”. In turn, some important aspects of this dialectic are discussed, placing them in an historical dimension, and ending in the postulation of a 'musical turn' in the sciences, with some important reflections concerning a “Philosophy of Fuzzy Logic”. Moreover, a production-oriented thinking is borrowed from fuzzy logic to musicology in this book, opening new perspectives in music, and possibly also in other artistic fields.

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Hanns-Werner Heister, Prof. Dr. phil., received his university education in Musicology, German Studies, Indo-European Studies and Linguistic, in Tübingen, Frankfurt a. M. and Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin).  In 1977, he received his Dr. phil in Musicology at the Technische Universität Berlin, under the supervision of Carl Dahlhaus;  in 1993, he received his Habilitation from the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg; 1992-1998, he served as a Professor for Musical communication and History of Music at the Musikhochschule „Carl Maria von Weber“ in Dresden; 1998-2011, he served as a Professor for Musicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Furthermore, he worked as a freelancer for various radio stations, journals and newspapers and has been teaching at various Schools of Music and Arts, such as the Musikhochschule in Berlin, the Universität Hamburg, the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, at the Technische Universität Dresden and at the Universität Wien. He also was a Visiting Professor at  the Musikhochschule Weimar. He held seminars on musicology in Schools of different countries, such as the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, in Heredia, Costa Rica (in 2012), the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (in 2013), the Conservatorio „Arrigo Boito“, in Parma, Italy (in 2014), and at the Hochschule für Musik Saar, in Saarbrücken, Germany (in 2016). Author of different books in the field of music history and musicology, his research has been dealing with various topics, such as: methodology of musicology; aesthetics, sociology, history, and anthropology  of music; political, popular music, new music and jazz; music and musical culture in Nazism, resistance movement and exile. Further topics include: aesthetics and history of music theatre; media/technology and institutions of music culture; music analysis; fuzzy logic and cybernetics; and gardening.

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