@article{2019:freeman:organizati,
title = {Organization, Not Inspiration: A Historical Perspective of Musical Information Architecture},
year = {2019},
note = {The organization of musical resources in a piece of music is opaque
for everyone but for those with the highest levels of musical
education. For the average listener, the specific vocabulary of
musical organization is usually replaced by metaphorical language
relating to inspiration and musical affect, or by a social perspective
that rids the music of its specific theoretical language and provides
a more relatable perspective of the music as a historical and communal
event. We examine the ways in which information architecture and
organizational theory can surface the inner workings of music in a
relatable and approachable way. We consider music as a series of
design resources that composers draw upon and organize according to a
series of constraints that create a sense of musical structure to
which the listener can relate. After a general introduction to the
literature relating to constraints and creativity, we use two
historical anecdotes that provide accessible demonstrations of how
musicians in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries organized their
musical resources both for their own compositional needs and for the
purposes of didactic communication.},
journal = {KO KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION},
pages = {161--170},
author = {Freeman, Graham and Glushko, Robert J.},
volume = {46},
number = {3}
}