RUSSIAN HUNTING MUSIC

Science and culture: Hunting fractals in the music of J. S. Bach.

Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot coined the term “fractal” in a 1975 book on the subject, and his seminal 1982 book The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1), which catalogs the ubiquity of the geometric patterns, is widely credited for bringing them to the masses. Mathematicians disagree on a precise definition, but a fractal is typically described as exhibiting self-similarity, which means identical ...

Hunting for the beat in the body: on period and phase locking in music-induced movement

Music has the capacity to induce movement in humans. Such responses during music listening are usually spontaneous and range from tapping to full-body dancing. However, it is still unclear how humans embody musical structures to facilitate entrainment. This paper describes two experiments, one dealing with period locking to different metrical levels in full-body movement and its relationships t...

Mutualistic hunting

The cooperative acquisition, defense and distribution of meat are common problems that must be solved by social hunters. These were also problems faced by any of our hominid ancestors that may have hunted large game in our evolutionary past. Much of the last 40 years of research in evolutionary ecology has tried to understand such cooperative behavior. The classic Prisoner's Dilemma game theory...

Hunting dimers

HBCBH and HAlCAlH are related electrondeficient molecules, predicted as local minima on their respective potential energy surfaces. Different views of their electronic structure—as allenes, carbenes, or carbones—prompted two research groups to a friendly competition exploring the predilection of these small molecules to dimerize. Many such dimers emerged from the calculations, some with large e...

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