Documents for J. Mailman's dissertation Temporal Dynamic Form in Music: Atonal, Tonal, and Other and other related writings.
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If you wish to read all or part of the dissertation, or other writings here, contact Joshua Mailman for a login and password. (In some cases a hard copy can be provided.) Look below to download the full dissertation. Click on the Audio and Animation tab above to view some brief multimedia (QuickTime movie) demonstrations of dynamic form.

Conference and colloquium presentations on dynamic form
• Interactive Computer Simulation and Perceptual Training for Unconventional Emergent Form-bearing Qualities in Music by Ligeti, Carter, and Others poster presentation, Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Rochester, NY, August, 2011	Abstract	poster
• Duality of metaphor for time and music: applications to computational-phenomenological analysis of musical form and expression plenary session roundtable on Metaphor, Seventh International Conference on Music Since 1900 / Society for Music Analysis Conference, Lancaster, U.K., July 2011	Abstract	Full Text download audio-visual
• Flux of Upward: A Computational Model of a Textural Device in Ligeti's Late Music" Northeast Music Cognition Group, New York University, April 2011	―	download audio-visual
• Emergent Flux Projecting Form in Ruth Crawford Seeger's Quartet (1931) Society of Music Theory, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2010 and Seventh International Conference on Music Since 1900 / Society for Music Analysis Conference, Lancaster, U.K., July 2011	Abstract	Full Text download audio-visual
• Dynamic Form (Flux of vertical cellularity in Isaac's Quis Dabit and flux of pitch freshness) Northeast Music Cognition Group, Yale University, May 2010	―	download audio-visual
• Dripping, Leaking, Framing, Flowing, and Dynamic Form: Narrative Allusions to Heraclites and Hitchcock Sixth International Conference on Music Since 1900, Keele University, U.K., July 2009	Abstract	Full Text download audio-visual
• Introduction to Temporal Dynamic Form Theory and Analysis Colloquium (by invitation), Harvard University, Department of Music, April 2009	―	―
• An Imagined Drama of Competitive Opposition in Carter's Scrivo in Vento (with Notes on Narrative, Symmetry, Quantitative Flux, and Heraclitus)    Music Analysis v.28, 2-3, 2009 (Winner: 25th Anniversary Competition)	Abstract	Full Text
Download the dissertation as four volumes
Volume 1 & 2 combined       (Text: front material, chapters 1-8, and references)
Volume 1 only         (Text: front material and chapters 1-4)
Volume 2 only         (Text: chapters 5-8 and references)
Volume 3     (Examples: charts, graphs, tables, and excerpts)
Volume 4     (Appendices: glossary, algorithm, and scores)
Download the dissertation chapters separately
Front Material (includes Title page, Acknowledgments, Abstract, Table of Contents, and Preface)
Chapter 1: Text  Introductory Overview of Dynamism and Temporal Dynamic Form
Chapter 1: Examples
(Chapter 1: Score Excerpts)
Chapter 2: Text  Dynamism, Staticism, and their Dialectic Interaction
Chapter 3: Text  Theoretical Bases: Time, Temporality, and Time Consciousness (with Implications Regarding Emergence)
Chapter 3: Examples
Chapter 4: Text  Vessels: A Class of Tools for Analyzing Dynamic Form
Chapter 4: Examples
Chapter 5: Text  Demonstrating the Development and Activation of Vessels (Part 1)
Chapter 5: Examples
(Chapter 5: Score Excerpts)
Chapter 6: Text  Demonstrating the Development and Activation of Vessels (Part 2: Compound Vessels, Including Applications to Genre, Narrative, and Expression)
Chapter 6: Examples
(Chapter 6: Score Excerpts)
Chapter 7: Text  Motivic Coherence and Emergent Quality Flux Derived Dynamic Form Arising from the Compositional Architecture of Babbitt's Whirled Series (1987)
Chapter 7: Examples (includes score excerpts)
Appendices (pertinent to Chapter 7)
Chapter 8: Text  Conclusion
References (bibliography)