Acknowledgments Improvisation Contextualized Improvisation vs. Composition Improvisation in Keyboard Pedagogy Teaching Philosophy of Robert Pace Improvisation in Current Piano Method Books Keyboard Reading Approaches Method Book Review Frances Clark and the Music Tree Faber and Piano Adventures The Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Robert Pace and Musicfor Piano Application of Improvisation in ...

The hydraulics of stepped spillways with flat steps has been studied for the last three decades, including for embankment dam slopes, but studies of alternative stepped designs are limited. In this study, a pooled stepped spillway was investigated in a relatively large-size facility, and three different pool wall porosities were tested. The flow patterns, the macroand microscopic air-water flow...

This paper presents a hardware and software system for adding multiple touch sensitivity to the piano-style keyboard. The traditional keyboard is a discrete interface, defining notes by onset and release. By contrast, our system allows continuous gestural control over multiple dimensions of each note by sensing the position and contact area of up to three touches per key. Each key consists of a...

dam spillways are the structures that lead rightly and safely the outflow downstream, so that the dam integrity can be guaranteed. many accidents with dams have been caused by an inadequate spillway design or insufficient capacity. to accurately respond the hydraulic spillways, designers use physical modeling for designing this kind of structures. the scale effect in the spillway modeling, as a...

Dam spillways are the structures that lead rightly and safely the outflow downstream, so that the dam integrity can be guaranteed. Many accidents with dams have been caused by an inadequate spillway design or insufficient capacity. To accurately respond the hydraulic spillways, designers use physical modeling for designing this kind of structures. The scale effect in the spillway modeling, as a...

Recently, the development of robots other than industrial robots, including home robots, personal robots, medical robots, and amusement robots, has been brisk. These robots, however, have required improvements in their intellectual capabilities and manual skills, as well as further increases in user compatibility (Y. Takahashi, M. Asada (2003)). User compatibility in future robots is important ...

Long-latency auditory-evoked magnetic field and potential show strong attenuation of N1m/N1 responses when an identical stimulus is presented repeatedly due to adaptation of auditory cortical neurons. This adaptation is weak in subsequently occurring P2m/P2 responses, being weaker for piano chords than single piano notes. The adaptation of P2m is more suppressed in musicians having long-term mu...

Recent piano teaching systems mainly rely on MIDI data. However, MIDI data contains only little information about the student‘s movement. Therefore, additional data channels can potentially be valuable for future piano teaching systems. In this paper we have examined the question, if inertial measurement sensors attached to the piano student‘s arm can provide information that could be relevant ...

BACKGROUND High level piano performance requires complex integration of perceptual, motor, cognitive and emotive skills. Observations in psychology and neuroscience studies have suggested reciprocal inhibitory modulation of the cognition by emotion and emotion by cognition. However, it is still unclear how cognitive states may influence the pianistic performance. The aim of the present study is...