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We generalize the topological approach to gestures, and culminate in the construction of a gesture bicategory, which enriches the classical Yoneda embedding and could be a valid candidate for the conjectured space X in the diamond conjecture [720]; see also Section 61.12. We discuss first applications thereof for topological groups, and then more concretely gestures in modulation processes in Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata. The latter offers a first concretization of answers to Lewin’s big question from [605] concerning characteristic gestures. This research is a first step towards a replacement of Fregean functional abstraction by gestural dynamics.
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Mazzola, G. et al. (2017). Categories of Gestures over Topological Categories. In: The Topos of Music III: Gestures. Computational Music Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64481-3_7
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