Overview

Revolutionary approaches to compositional practice and musicological research have been associated with Otto Laske's work for over a quarter of a century. Laske's scientific understanding of the compositional process has made it possible to systematically formalize computer-assisted and computer synthesized music. In this book, international scholars survey new directions in compositional and musicological practices as influenced by Laske's pioneering work. These two seemingly independent areas of inquiry, composition,and musicology, are presented as a comprehensive integration. The essays offer an interdisciplinary examination of issues imbued with ethnographic considerations of the musical experience, research in perception and brain functions, the design of computer-based neural networks that emulate human musical activities, investigations into the psychological make-up of artists, and a unique perspective on how computers are used in many different areas of music. Compositional and cognitive musicological research are placed in a historical perspective and accompanied with contemporary issues surrounding this research. An interview with Otto Laske and two of his own essays are also included. This study of Otto Laske will appeal to musicologists and students of music theory and composition. Its interdisciplinary content will also interest scholars in a variety of fields including electronic music, ethnomusicology, computer science, artificial intelligence and other cognitive sciences, psychology, and philosophy. Researchers will appreciate the comprehensive bibliography of Laske's compositions and writings.

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Author:   Jerry N. Tabor
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume:   No. 53
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9780313306327

ISBN 10:   031330632
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 May 1999
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction A Pioneer in Composition and Research by Jerry Tabor Composition and Composition Theory Sonology: A Questionable Science Revisited by Barry Truax Structure as Performance: Cognitive Musicology and the Objectification of Compositional Procedure by Michael Hamman PROJECT 1 Revisited: On the Analysis and Interpretation of PR1 Tables by Gottfried Michael Koenig Cognitive Musicology A Brief Overview of Otto Laske's Work by Joel Chadabe Portrait of an Extraterrestrian by Bernard Bel Adequacy Criteria for Models of Musical Cognition by Marc Leman Modeling Musical Thinking by Jukka Louhivuori Composition and Cognitive Musicology in Practice A Composer's Cognitive Musicology by Nico Schuler ""Furies and Voices"": Composition-Theoretical Observations by Otto Laske Creating Music as an Articulation of Prelinguistic Senses of Self (A Lecture) by Otto Laske The Newcomp Experiment by Curtis Roads Bibliography: Selected Works of Otto Laske (1964-1998) Index"

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JERRY TABOR is Assistant Professor of Music at Salisbury State University in Maryland where he coordinates and teaches in the composition, computer music, and theory programs./e His music is performed throughout the United States and is recorded on the Neuma label.

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