Subject: New Book on Music, Gestalt, and Computing From: Marc Leman <Marc.Leman(at)RUG.AC.BE> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:00:56 +0100<nofill>Dear List, I thought this information might be interesting for auditory research as this book contains a number of papers that deal with this topic from a musicological point of view. Thanks for your interest, Marc Leman $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Book Announcement: More information is available at http://next.rug.ac.be/book/title.html = -----------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---------------------------- Title: =20 Music, Gestalt, and Computing-- Studies in Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Editor: Marc Leman (Email: Marc.Leman(at)rug.ac.be) Publisher: Springer-Verlag, 1997, pp. 524 Price:=20 98 DM </nofill> This book presents a coherent state-of-the-art survey on the area of systematic and cognitive musicology which has enjoyed dynamic growth now for many years. It is devoted to exploring the relationships between acoustics, human information processing, and culture, as well as to methodological issues raised by the widespread use of computers as powerful tools for theory construction, theory testing, and the manipulation of musical information or any kind of data manipulation related to music. This book comes with a CD providing sound examples for various chapters; it contains introductory survey contributions also accessible to the non-expert reader, a comprehensive name and subject index and the following technical chapters: 1. Gestalt theory revisited, 2. from pitch to harmony, 3. from rhythm to expectation, 4. from timbre to texture, 5. from musical expression to interactive computer systems. Most of the contributions included are thoroughly revised and reviewed versions of papers presented during the Joint International Conference on Cognitive and Systematic Musicology, held in Brugge, Belgium in September 1996. <nofill> List of Contents: -Introduction I. Gestalt Theory Revisited=20 -Origin and Nature of Cognitive and Systematic Musicology: An Introduction =20= Marc Leman and Albrecht Schneider =20 -Systematic, Cognitive and Historical Approaches in Musicology Jukka Louhivuori =20 </nofill>-Empiricism, Gestalt Qualities, and Determination of Style: Some = Remarks Concerning the Relationship of Guido Adler to Richard Wallaschek, Alexius Meinong, Christian von Ehrenfels, and Robert Lach =20 <nofill> Michael Weber =20 -Gestalt Concepts and Music: Limitations and Possibilities =20 Mark Reybrouck =20 </nofill>-Logic, Gestalt Theory, and Neural Computation in Research on = Auditory Perceptual Organization =20 Randolph Eichert, Lüder Schmidt, and Uwe Seifert =20 -Knowledge in Music Theory by Shapes of Musical Objects and Sound-Producing Actions =20 <nofill> Rolf Inge God{\oy =20 -Statistical Gestalts - Perceptible Features in Serial Music=20 Elena Ungeheuer =20 II. =46rom Pitch to Harmony=20 -``Verschmelzung'', Tonal Fusion, and Consonance: Carl Stumpf Revisited =20 Albrecht Schneider =20 </nofill>-Schema and Gestalt: Testing the Hypothesis of Psychoneural = Isomorphism by Computer Simulation =20 <nofill> Marc Leman and Francesco Carreras =20 -Self-organizing Neural Nets and the Perceptual Origin of the Circle of = Fifths =20 Nicola Cufaro Petroni and Matteo Tricarico =20 -A Model of the Perceptual Root(s) of a Chord =20 Accounting for Voicing and Prevailing Tonality =20 Richard Parncutt =20 </nofill>-`Good', `Fair', and `Bad' Chord Progressions: A = Regression-Analysis of Some Psychological Chord Progression Data Obtained in an Experiment by J. Bharucha and C. Krumhansl =20 <nofill> Daniel Werts =20 -Problems of Shape and Background in Sounds with =20 Inharmonic Spectra =20 Jenö Keuler =20 -A Method of Analysing Harmony, Based on Interval Patterns or ``Gestalten'' = =20 Roland Eberlein =20 -Neural Network Models for the Study of Post-Tonal Music =20 Eric Isaacson =20 III. =46rom Rhythm to Expectation =20 -Tempo Relations: Is There a Psychological Basis for Proportional Tempo = Theory? =20 Marek Franek and Jiri Mates =20 -A Framework for the Subsymbolic Description of Meter =20 Dirk Moelants =20 -Musical Rhythm: A Formal Model for Determining =20 Local Boundaries, Accents and Metre in a Melodic Surface =20 Emilios Cambouropoulos =20 -Effects of Perceptual Organization and Musical Form on Melodic = Expectancies =20 Carol Krumhansl =20 </nofill>-Continuations as Completions: Studying Melodic Expectation in the Creative Microdomain: Seek Well =20 <nofill> Steve Larson =20 IV. =46rom Timbre to Texture -Optimizing Self-Organizing Timbre Maps: Two Approaches =20 Petri Toiviainen =20 -Towards a More General Understanding of the Nasality Phenomenon =20 Milan Rusko =20 </nofill>-Karl Erich Schumann's Principles of Timbre as a Helpful Tool in = Stream Segregation Research =20 <nofill> Christoph Reuter =20 -Cross-Synthesis Using Interverted Principal Harmonic Sub-Spaces =20 Thierry Rochebois and Gérard Charbonneau =20 -Gestalt Phenomena in Musical Texture =20 Dalia Cohen and Shlomo Dubnov =20 V. =46rom Musical Expression to Interactive Computer Systems -Technology of Interpretation and Expressive Pulses =20 Andranick Tanguiane =20 -Intonational Protention in the Performance of Melodic Octaves on the = Violin =20 Janina Fyk =20 -Sonological Analysis of Clarinet Expressivity =20 Sergio Canazza, Giovanni De Poli,Stefano Rinaldin and Alvise Vidolin =20= </nofill>-Perceptual Analysis of the Musical Expressive Intention in a = Clarinet Performance =20 <nofill> Sergio Canazza, Giovanni De Poli and Alvise Vidolin =20 -Singing, Mind and Brain -- Unit Pulse, Rhythm, Emotion and Expression =20 Eliezer Rapoport =20 </nofill>-Emulating Gestalt Mechanisms by Combining Symbolic and = Subsymbolic Information Processing Procedures =20 <nofill> Udo Mattusch =20 -Interactive Computer Music Systems and Concepts of Gestalt =20 Paul Modler =20 -Gestalt-based Composition and Performance in Multimodal Environments =20 Antonio Camurri and Marc Leman =20 VI. List of Sound Examples -Author Index -Subject Index =20 </nofill>=