Saturday 20 September
Session Convenors: Thomas Noll/Marek Žabka The timetable for this session has been slightly altered! Subsession 1
10.45 INTERMISSION
The activity of exploring a certain mathematical territory with the goal of its application to music-theory is typically fraught with risks. The outcome is not clear until the work is accomplished. The panelists are encouraged to report on promising ongoing research projects and to share their initial motivations as well as intermediate results. The panel consists of statements by the contributors and subsequent discussions.Especially we intend to stimulate a dialogue with the participants from Session 6A on Tonality (organized by Christophe Guillotel-Nothmann). The planned contributions by Emmanuel Amiot, Jon Wild and Marek Žabka address the role of generatedness from different perspectives and levels of generality. The study of the phases in discrete Fourier Transforms of pitch class sets is brand-new and promising. By contrast, the distinction of the major third from the ditone dates back at least to Archytas. Nevertheless, in recent mathematical approaches by Žabka and Wild it affects issues of dimension and transformations and deserves to be reviewed in these recent contexts. Jessica Rudman’s contribution nicely complements Jon Wild’s presentation on Vicentino. 16.00 Marek Žabka |
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