Abstract
This chapter sketches the compositional process between paradigmatic selection and syntagmatic combination within the musical sign system. Apart from these semiotic perspectives, the process is characterized by a “dialectic” interrelation of local and global criteria. These features—well known from the general structure theory of global compositions—reappear in the special light of poiesis: The construction of a composition resembles the step-by-step completion of a puzzle of logical units, distributed in syntagmatic time, and selected to optimize association to already placed units. This activity is remunerative and fed back by a successive accumulation of poetical semantics.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Computational Music Science |
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
| Pages | 779-782 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
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| State | Published - 2017 |
Publication series
| Name | Computational Music Science |
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| ISSN (Print) | 1868-0305 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1868-0313 |
Bibliographical note
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