The Rubato Composer Music Software

Component-Based Implementation of a Functorial Concept Architecture
Softcover Nachdruck of hardcover 1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-642-10117-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 301 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: Computational Music Science

Both modern mathematical music theory and computer science are strongly influenced by the theory of categories and functors. One outcome of this research is the data format of denotators, which is based on set-valued presheaves over the category of modules and diaffine homomorphisms. The functorial approach of denotators deals with generalized points in the form of arrows and allows the construction of a universal concept architecture. This architecture is ideal for handling all aspects of music, especially for the analysis and composition of highly abstract musical works.

This book presents an introduction to the theory of module categories and the theory of denotators, as well as the design of a software system, called Rubato Composer, which is an implementation of the category-theoretic concept framework. The application is written in portable Java and relies on plug-in components, so-called rubettes, which may be combined in data flow networks for the generation and manipulation of denotators.

The Rubato Composer system is open to arbitrary extension and is freely available under the GPL license. It allows the developer to build specialized rubettes for tasks that are of interest to composers, who in turn combine them to create music. It equally serves music theorists, who use them to extract information from and manipulate musical structures. They may even develop new theories by experimenting with the many parameters that are at their disposal thanks to the increased flexibility of the functorial concept architecture.

Two contributed chapters by Guerino Mazzola and Florian Thalmann illustrate the application of the theory as well as the software in the development of compositional tools and the creation of a musical work with the help of the Rubato framework.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milmeister, Gérard

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mazzola, Guerino

Thalmann, Florian

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Digitale Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Digitale Musik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Mathematische & Statistische Software
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Concepts and Theory.- Overview of Music Theories.- The Representation of Music.- Architecture of Concepts I: Principles.- The Category of Modules.- Architecture of Concepts II: Forms and Denotators.- Software Components for Computational Theories.- Historical Overview.- The Implementation.- Overview.- Architecture.- Modules and Morphisms.- Forms and Denotators.- Tools and Utilities.- Rubato Composer GUI.- Rubato Composer in Practice.- Overview.- A Tutorial.- First Applications in Rubette Construction.- The BigBang Rubette.- Creative Analysis of Boulez’s.- Conclusion and Outlook.- User’s Manual.