MUSAS: A Program for Analysis and Synthesis of Musical Spaces

Gilberto Carvalho


Hudson Lacerda


Escola de Música da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Abstract:

The main purpose of this paper is to describe the MUSAS program, which is a environment that aims to conjugate the Forte's theory of the pitch-class sets with newly created musical spaces. In the introduction are the main forces, under our point of view, that drove us to project and to implement such a king of program. Following, there is a section on the fundamentals of the program theoretical background (pitch-class sets and space generation). In third place, we talk about the implementation and, to finish, there is a conclusion where we explain some critical considerations on the project up to its current state.

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