Original xylophone etudes in the new percussion repertoire

Machine Learning Etudes in Astrophysics

Making mock simulated catalogs is an important component of astrophysical data analysis. Selection criteria for observed astronomical objects are often too complicated to be derived from first principles. However the existence of an observed group of objects is a wellsuited problem for machine learning classification. In this paper we use one-class classifiers to learn the properties of an obse...

Comparing Kirkpatrick’s original and new model with CIPP evaluation model

In a young field like educational programevaluation, it is inevitable that conceptualframeworks such as Kirkpatrick model arerevised with time and with greater knowledge.The New World Kirkpatrick Model (NWKM)is the new version of Kirkpatrick model whichis more welcome to context and process, andhence probably much closer to the context–input–process–product (CIPP) model (1). The aimof this pape...

Musical Score Generation in Valses and Etudes

The author describes a recent composition for piano and computer in which the score performed by the pianist, read from a computer display, is generated in real-time from a vocabulary of predetermined scanned score excerpts. The author outlines the algorithm used to choose and display a particular excerpt and describes some of the musical difficulties faced by the pianist in a performance of th...

Percussion of the Chest

Cranial percussion.

Percussion of the skull dates from a time when there were virtually no radiological methods for examining the skull and brain. Three apparently independent contributions appeared within the years 1893-1895. The sound elicited, tenderness, and auscultatory percussion have each been employed for diagnostic purposes, but have long been superseded.