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Combinatorial Features as Cues and Means of Music Innovation
| Author | Giovanni Albini |
| Series | Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale |
| Size | 17×24, pp. 136 (21-38) |
| Year | 2018 |
| ISBN | 9788870969986 |
The features of completeness, exhaustiveness and equality in repetition in music are defined and discussed, focusing on how and why they can occur and be used as cues and means of innovation. Their occurrence in the scores of different composers is then studied, with examples from the music and techniques of Ludwig van Beethoven, Arnold Schoenberg, Josef Matthias Hauer, Fritz Heinrich Klein, Milton Babbitt, Arvo Pärt, Paul Glass, Tom Johnson and of the author.
Giovanni Albini (b. 1982), composer and music theorist, is professor of Music Theory at the Conservatory of Udine, lecturer at the Conservatory of Pavia, and academic member of the Istituto di Studi Superiori dell’Insubria “Gerolamo Cardano”. He holds a BM, a MM and a PgD in Composition, a BS and a MS in Mathematics and a MM in Classical Guitar. He is also a PhD student in Composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn. His theoretical research focuses on mathematically informed aesthetic theories of music composition, mathematical music theory and its application to composition and he devoted himself with special interest to soundtracks for interactive media, algorithmic music and non linear composition systems. He has written several concert music scores as well as many tracks and sound designs for video art, exhibitions, multimedia, commercials, trailers, videogames and television. He is the founding Artistic Director of the highSCORE Festival.