Topology of Sound Forms and Music

"This book represents the culmination of a life in which two major passions have joined: the passion for music and the passion for mathematics. The author is one of the major Romanian conductors of the second half of the twentieth century. The aim of this work has two distinct aspects: (1) the creation of an instrument of investigation allowing an adequate generalization, so that a number of seemingly dissimilar sound organizations may be included in a system, much being considered a sound organization belonging to that system; (2) the endowment of the musical composition act with new tools, by proving that the traditional methods are but particular cases of a much more general group of principles for sound organizations, out of which only a small part is used by composers."