On Commissioning New Music for Baroque Cello

Orlando Gibbons, Keyboard Music, and the Beginnings of the Baroque: New Considerations of a Musical Style

Résumé By examining abstract instrumental works, I wish to propose that an essential aspect of the new style known today as “Baroque” is the adoption of a different tonal language that can be found in English music of the early years of the century. This is, in itself, not a new idea, and that there is a move to a two-mode (major/ minor) system during the course of the seventeenth century is no...

On the Technique of Canon in Russian Baroque Music (on the Example of Polychoral

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...

Pleasure’s Poise: Classicism and Baroque Allegory in Poussin’s ‘Dance to the Music of Time’

‘Like all artists of his period, Poussin placed great weight on the clarity and legibility of an allegory.’1 Thus the verdict of Otto Grautoff, in his 1914 monograph on Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), describing speci!cally the artist’s portrayal of earthly transience and vanity, ‘The Dance of Human Life’. Clarity was already a catchphrase in Poussin scholarship in Grautoff’s day, used most often ...

Can Background Baroque Music Help to Improve the Memorability of Graphical Passwords?

Graphical passwords have been proposed as an alternative to alphanumeric passwords with their advantages in usability and security. However, they still tend to follow predictable patterns that are easier for attackers to exploit, probably due to users’ memory limitations. Various literatures show that baroque music has positive effects on human learning and memorizing. To alleviate users’ memor...