Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition is a book by Greek composer, architect, and engineer Iannis Xenakis in which he explains his motivation, philosophy, and technique for composing music with stochastic mathematical functions. It was published in Paris in 1963 as Musiques formelles: nouveaux principes formels de composition musicale as a special double issue of La Revue musicale and republished in an expanded edition in 1981 in Paris by Stock Musique. It was later translated into English with three added chapters and published in 1971 by Indiana University Press, republished in 1992 by Pendragon Press with a second edition published in 2001, also by Pendragon. The book contains the complete FORTRAN program code for one of Xenakis's early computer music composition programs GENDY. It has been described as a groundbreaking work.[1]
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FormalizedMusic: Thought and Mathematics in Composition is a book by Greek composer, architect, and engineer Iannis Xenakis in which he explains his motivation...
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Reprinted, New York: Dover Publications, 1950. Xenakis, Iannis. 1971. FormalizedMusic: Thought and Mathematics in Composition. Bloomington and London: Indiana...
Composer Iannis Xenakis in "Towards a Metamusic" (chapter 7 of FormalizedMusic) defined music in the following way: It is a sort of comportment necessary...
Perspectives of New Music 7, no. 1 (Fall–Winter) 3–17. Xenakis, Iannis. 1971. FormalizedMusic: Thought and Mathematics in Composition. Bloomington and London: Indiana...
skills. Among the numerous theoretical writings he authored, the book FormalizedMusic: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (French edition 1963, English...
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doi:10.1162/014892601300126106. S2CID 21260852. Xenakis, Iannis (2001). FormalizedMusic: Thought and Mathematics in Composition. Harmonologia Series No. 6...
FormalizedMusic: Thought and Mathematics in Composition. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press. Roads, Curtis (1996). The Computer Music Tutorial...
any way the work of anyone else, be it a god. Iannis Xenakis (1992). FormalizedMusic: Thought and Mathematics in Composition (2 ed.). Pendragon Press. p...
a more formalized notion of theme and variations. The tonalities of major and minor as means for managing dissonance and chromaticism in music took full...
(1996). The Computer Music Tutorial. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-18158-7. Xenakis, Iannis; Kanach, Sharon (1992) FormalizedMusic: Mathematics and Thought...
British Thomson-Houston Company, published 1947 Xenakis, Iannis (2001). FormalizedMusic: Thought and Mathematics in Composition. Vol. 9th (2nd ed.). Pendragon...
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the ICMC2005 – International Computer Music Conference. Barcelona, Spain. Xenakis, Iannis (1992). FormalizedMusic: Thought and Mathematics in Composition...
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