Scottish Church Music: Its Composers and Sources

Editing the Past: Cosmo Innes and the Scottish Medieval Church

In 1832 the Maitland Club published an edition of the register of Paisley Abbey, a sixteenth century manuscript detailing, through transcripts of original charters and other documents, the institution’s property and privileges. This publication was the first of its kind in Scotland and was the work of the lawyer, historian and record scholar Cosmo Innes (17981874). He went on to edit a further ...

The Catholic Church and Its Migrant Members:

Using Network Sciences to Rank Musicians and Composers in Brazilian Popular Music

Music fascinates and touches most people. This fascination leads to opinions about the music pieces that reflects people’s exposure and personal experience. This inherent bias of people towards music indicates that personal opinion is inappropriate for defining the quality of music and musicians. This paper takes a holistic view of the problem and delves into the understanding of the structure ...

Cognitive Styles and Computer-Based Creativity Support Systems: Two Linked Studies of Electro-acoustic Music Composers

This paper explores cognitive style as one of the factors that may explain tensions that can exist between individual electroacoustic composers and the software they use. The discussion centres on two linked studies: (a) a small scale intensive qualitative case study of 2 established composers, in which they unexpectedly revealed differences that mapped remarkably well onto one of the key dimen...

The Paperoles Project: An analysis of paper use by music composers

Technologies such as Anoto offer a novel approach to supporting the creative design process, by integrating paper with on-line tools. However, creating successful 'augmented paper' applications requires a detailed understanding of the existing and potential roles of both paper and computers. This paper describes our study of contemporary music composers, who are highly skilled users of both. We...