Godfried T. Toussaint

The Geometry of Musical Rhythm (eBook, PDF)

What Makes a "Good" Rhythm Good?, Second Edition

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The original edition of The Geometry of Musical Rhythm was the first book to provide a systematic and accessible computational geometric analysis of the musical rhythms of the world. It explained how the study of the mathematical properties of musical rhythm generates common mathematical problems that arise in seemingly disparate fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351247764
• Artikelnr.: 58303741

Autorenporträt

Godfried T. Toussaint is a Canadian computer scientist born in Belgium. Presently, he is a Research Professor of Computer Science at the University of New York, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Researcher in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) in the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, and an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at McGill. After receiving a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, he taught and did research at the School of Computer Science at McGill University, in the areas of information theory, pattern recognition, pattern analysis and design, computational geometry, instance-based learning, music information retrieval, and computational music theory. In 1978, he received the Pattern Recognition Society's Best Paper of the Year Award and in 1985 he was awarded a Senior Killam Research Fellowship by the Canada Council. In May 2001, he was awarded the David Thomson Award for excellence in graduate supervision and teaching at McGill University. He is a founder and cofounder of several international conferences and workshops on computational geometry. He is an editor of several journals, has appeared on television programs to explain his research on the mathematical analysis of flamenco rhythms, and has published more than 360 papers. In 2009, he was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, for the 2009-2010 academic year, to carry out a research project on the phylogenetic analysis of the musical rhythms of the world. After spending an additional year at Harvard University, in the music department, he moved in August 2011 to New York University in Abu Dhabi.

Inhaltsangabe

What Is Rhythm?. A Steady Beat. Timelines, Ostinatos, and Meter. The Wooden
Claves. The Iron Bells. The Clave Son. Six Distinguished Rhythm Timelines.
The Distance Geometry of Rhythm. Classification of Rhythms. Binary and
Ternary Rhythms. The Isomorphism of Rhythm and Scale. Binarization,
Ternarization, and Quantization of Rhythms. Syncopated Rhythms. Necklaces
and Bracelets. Rhythmic Oddity. Off-Beat Rhythms. Rhythm Complexity.
Dispersion Problems and Maximally Even Rhythms. Euclidean Rhythms. Leap
Years: The Rhythm of the Stars. Approximately Even Rhythms. Rhythms and
Crystallography. Complementary Rhythms. Radio Astronomy and Flat Rhythms.
Deep Rhythms. Shelling Rhythms. Phantom Rhythms. Reflection Rhythms and
Rhythmic Canons. Toggle Rhythms. Symmetric Rhythms. Odd Rhythms. Other
Representations of Rhythm. Rhythmic Similarity and Dissimilarity. Regular
and Irregular Rhythms. Evolution and Phylogenesis of Musical Rhythm.
Rhythmic Combinatorics. What Makes the Clave Son Such a Good Rhythm?. The
Origin, Evolution, and Migration of the Clave Son. Epilogue. References.
Index.