Beginnings and Endings in Western Art Music

Endings and Beginnings

533 " [Everything] has to come to an end, sometime. " L. Frank Baum The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) 1 As our regular readers know, this is a very special issue of College & Research Libraries. It is the last one that we will print. Beginning with the first issue of volume 75 (January 2014), this journal will join many others in being published solely in digital form. The road to this decision h...

Endings and beginnings

At the start of a new year it is time to look back over the past 12 months, as well as to look forward. 2015 has been one with a sad farewell to two very good friends, Dr Howard Jones Jr (see Fact Views Vis Obgyn, 2015, 7:149-152) and Professor Jan van der Merwe whose obituary appears in this issue. The past year has seen some very interesting and stimulating papers, not to forget about the mos...

Plant Systematics: Beginnings and Endings

Editorial: of zombies, endings and beginnings...

In the Globe and Mail, 6 September 2008, Doug Saunders’s column was entitled, ‘‘Europe Comes Home to the Shock of a Demographic Bombshell.’’ He opines on the latest Eurostat report, Population and Social Conditions, which predicts that by 2015 the European population will begin to shrink as deaths outnumber births, even taking into account immigration and in the absence of any other changes. Ne...

The computational analysis of harmony in western art music

This thesis describes research in the computational analysis of harmony in western art music, focussing particularly on improving the accuracy and information-richness of key and chord extraction from digital score data. It is argued that a greater sophistication in automatic harmony analysis is an important contribution to the field of computational musicology. Initial experiments use hidden M...