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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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MUSIC FROM A SYSTEMIC VIEWPOINT 1)

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Musical works can be viewed from two different angles.

In the first place, a musical work has normally a structure defined according to certain rules of the art. For example, it can be western tonal music, or dodecaphonic, or jazz. Or it can follow the rules of the Indian Ragas. All these rules also imply typical dynamics.

Tonal music for instance has been thus described by LERDAHL and JACKENDORFF (1983) and by E. CAMBUROPOULOS in 1998

On the other hand, music is made to be perceived by auditors. While specific musical perception has not been widely researched, it is obvious that the people that we consider as musically "educated" are these who assimilated specific frames of reference corresponding to the acoustical nature of sounds and their combinations and/or the rules corresponding to a specific type of music (for ex. tonal or dodecaphonic rules of musical composition) (I. DELIEGE, 1999)

→ CASIS Journal, v.4, 1999, which contains 14 papers on music structures and perception

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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