Metamodels in Compositional Practices: The Case of Alberto Posada's "Liturgia Fractal"

Foreword by Lawrence M. Zbikowski.

What minimal cognitive dispositions and formal implications might take part in any transferring from a scientific model to a musical one during composers' creative pratices?

What methodological and analytical stands should musicologists take in order to efficiently address the study of musical works originating from those pratices?

This book is aimed at providing some clues as to both questions. Its first part combines arguments from logics and cognitive linguistics, leading to the definition of a "compositional metamodel". It also provides a possible framework for analyzing science-inspired compositions. The second part of the book delimits Alberto Posadas's creative pratices, focusing on his fractal metamodels -based on fractional Brownian motions, the Mandelbrot set, Lindenmayer systems and histologic fractals- for composing "Liturgia Fractal" (2003-2007).

CONTENIDO:

Foreword by Lawrence M. Zbikowski

Introduction

First part. Towards a metamodeling
1. The epistemological framework
2. The cognitive framework
3. Compositional metamodels
4. Musicological prospects

Second part. Alberto Posadas's fractal metamodels
5. The fractal choice
6. Around "Ondulado tiempo sonoro..."
7. Around "Modulaciones"
8. Around "Órbitas"
9. Around "Arborescencias"
10. Around "Bifurcaciones"
11. Analytical overview

Appendix and references
-Alberto Posadas's sketches
-References
-Index
-List of tables
-List of figures