Oral and literate traditions

ORAL TRADITIONS AND ARCHEOLOGY: Modeling Village Settlement in Palau, Micronesia

Historical Archaeology in Africa: Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions

On Computational Transcription and Analysis of Oral and Semi - Oral Chant Traditions

Variation is considered a universal principle in music. In terms of semiotics, variation in music is omnipresent and distinguishes music from language (Middleton, 1990). In oral music traditions, variation is introduced to the music due to the absence of a concrete notation. In this paper we investigate melodic stability and variation in cadences as they occur in oral and semi-oral traditions. ...

Quran and traditions on purgatory

Purgatory life of man and the stages following it have always occupied human mind. Some verses of Quran such as Al-muminun 100-101, Al-Imran 169-170, Ya-Sin 26-27, Al-Mu`min 11 and 46, Al-Munafiqun 10 and An-Nahl 32 clearly describe purgatory world and its properties. As is understood everlasting life of martyrs of holy wars and their rewards has been regarded as a proof for purgatory and its g...

Formalization and 'Literate' Programming

The ‘literate’ programming model is extended to include a concept of mechanical transformation. A prototype tool, FLP (Formal Literate Programming tool), has been developed which uses this extended ‘literate’ programming model in both a formal program proof setting, and within a formal (refinement) program development setting. In both settings, FLP provides history, access to tools, and an easy...