The Rules of Music

Rotore, is available on Google books

http://books.google.it/books?id=OtF5viL38foC&printsec=frontcover&hl=it&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

I have never read it, but it is considered THE book on generative musical grammar. At least in Italian. Generative musical grammar is a multidisciplinary field of study, between musicology and neuroscience, that seeks to find a set of basic rules for musical perception and activity inherent in our brain. These rules should be configured, indeed, as a grammar

Very interesting!

thallo wrote:

I have never read it, but it is considered THE book on generative musical grammar. At least in Italian. Generative musical grammar is a multidisciplinary field of study, between musicology and neuroscience, that seeks to find a set of basic rules for musical perception and activity inherent in our brain. These rules should constitute, indeed, a grammar

I haven't read it either, and it is on the list of things I will read shortly (hopefully) - obviously after those suggested by Paola - but a friend who has read it told me something curious.

To "test" the rules, software was used that was specifically created to generate historical forgeries through the very rules designed and defined. However, the focus was not the software itself, but using a non-thinking "pseudo-individual" that would process a series of rules designed to perform that specific reconstruction and evaluate the results. Greater fidelity of the work... better rules.

In my opinion, the idea of using a processor makes the matter interesting, because an individual, a thinking being, can always add their own touch (even in terms of taste)... testing the rules thus means, in the perversion of the experiment, truly understanding whether they are effective or not.

I don't know if anyone, however, can validate or refute such information

Thanks to everyone, I am convinced that grammar is just a pretext...but I will get it for myself anyway

Rotore wrote:

grammar is only a pretext...

I agree