Download or read book The Topos of Music II: Performance written by Guerino Mazzola and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The author explains his theory of musical performance, developed in the language of differential geometry, introducing performance vector fields that generalize tempo and intonation. The author also shows how Rubato, a software platform for composition, analysis, and performance, allows an experimental evaluation of principles of expressive performance theories.