Form or Design in Music

Form and function: examples of music interface design

This paper presents observations on the creation of digital music controllers and the music that they generate from the perspectives of the designer and the artist. In the case of musical instruments, what is the role of the form (the hardware) where it concerns the function (the production of musically interesting sounds)? Specific projects are presented, and a set of operational principles is...

Form in 20th Century Music

FORM. In the most general sense: shape (contour, the variation of some attribute of a thing in space or time), and structure (the disposition of parts, relations of part to part, and of part to whole). In music, shape is the result of changes in some attribute or parameter of sound, in time, while structure has to do with various relations between sounds and sound-configurations, at the same or...

Psychological constraints on form-bearing dimensions in music

knowledge structures A lot of perceptions, decisions, and understandings are based on generalizations that we have learned from specific experience. In music cognition these abstractions seem to be of two types that are general to at least a whole repertoire of music or to a musical culture (though some may also apply across cultures): systems of relations among musical categories (such as pitc...

Automated Methods for Analyzing Music Recordings in Sonata Form

The sonata form has been one of the most important large-scale musical structures used since the early Classical period. Typically, the first movements of symphonies and sonatas follow the sonata form, which (in its most basic form) starts with an exposition and a repetition thereof, continues with a development, and closes with a recapitulation. The recapitulation can be regarded as an altered...

Music in, as, or for therapy