Let's be baroque!

Marūfī’s Paykar Farhād [Farhād’s Corpse]:

By baroque, one implies the “general attitude” and “the formal quality” of a work of art which is trans-historical and “radiates through” histories, cultures, and works of art. In that way, just a seventeenth-century work of art cannot be considered baroque; on the other hand, even a postmodern work can display “baroque” features. However, as a slave to its era, the baroque of 2oth and 21th cen...

Introducing the Austrian Baroque Corpus: Annotation and Application of a Thematic Research Collection

This paper gives an overview of a relatively new thematic corpus based on German sacred literature of the Baroque period. At present, the digital collection consists of several texts specific to the memento mori genre. All texts in the Austrian Baroque Corpus (ABaC:us) have been enriched with different layers of structural information and tagged using automated tools adapted to the specific nee...

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...

Review of "Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body" by Mark Franko

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