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Index
Introduction: All Worlds
Part 1: Musical Variables
Paths of Change
‘Building Up’ and ‘Breaking Down’ Musical Variables
Music Before Sounds
Specifying Variables within a Musical Context, or ‘Taking Variables into Account’
Music After Sounds: Non-sonic Variables
A Definition of Music
Constraining Variables: Quantisation
Constraining Variables: Limiting Ranges
Flexible Music and Concrete Music
Configurations of Musical Variables: Instruments
Configurations of Musical Variables: Styles
Configurations of Musical Variables: Works
Configurations and the Variability of Music as a Whole
Part 2: Welcome to Music Space
Cage’s ‘Sound Space’
Recognising Variables
Constituting Musical Objects
Subsets, Subspaces, Concentric Musical Objects
Dimensions in Sound Space
Dimensions in Music Space
Using Musical Objects
The Infinite Variety of Musical Objects
The Progressive Specification of Music Space
Degrees of Freedom
Extrapolating a Music Space from Performance Events
Music Space and New Music
Part 3: Aesthetics and Music Space
Active, Interested Listening
Images of Music
Images of Styles and of Music-itself
Musical Canons
Modern Music (Music Beyond Images)
Music Criticism and Music-as-music-criticism
A Definition of New Music
Critical Listening
Repetition, Difference and Images of Music
The Recurring Specifics of Style
Synthesis: Between Earth and Elsewhere
Alien Styles
Alien Genres
New Instruments
Epilogue: Into the Future
Appendix: Alan Lomax’s Cantometrics System
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography / Referenced Texts / Further Reading
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