Lotman and the Baroque

and the baroque guitar CRAIG

Guitar chords with a flurry of strummed strings sonorities we gard as commonplace revolutionized the sound of music at the 1500s and opened up a new universe of musical thought in Western Melody and counterpoint had reigned supreme throughout the as the principal musical aspects of a composition, but around role was challenged by a startling new concept harmony. viously music consisted of horiz...

Baroque Technology

As new interactive systems evolve, they frequently hit a sweet spot: A few new tricks to learn, and users gets tremendous benefits, simplifying their lives. But beyond that lies the dark phase of baroque technology: increasing complexity with little payoff. We will look at examples for both sweet-spot and baroque interactive technologies, from GPS devices to window systems, find out how to iden...

The Vernacular Bible: Reformation and Baroque

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The Art of Renaissance and Baroque Eras

[Medicine and disease in baroque art].

anatomist, but a doctor interested in the changes caused by disease in organs, to thus establish the cause of death. He was, therefore, the perfect representative of doctors of the time, attempting to apply scientific method (based on ‘causal knowledge’) to the interpretation of illness. Dr Tulp’s dissections (nearly always on the corpses of those sentenced to death) brought together followers ...