The topicality. Musical works of the famous Ukrainian composer, conductor, public activist, passionate propagandist modern music Volodymyr Runchak today are in area special attention critics and musicologists. After all, his represent advanced position contemporary art music. A confirmation this thought is widespread recognition creative artist both Ukraine many countries world; at most festiva...

Overview The original idea was to develop a system for musicological analysis that was capable of assisting in the resolution of issues concerning compositional authenticity. Based on explicit rule-based interrogation of a musical score the system gathers statistical information by way of a data extraction engine, the subsequent neural network implicitly forms an abstract impression of habitual...

635 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Digital transformations Digital technology has already transformed music. It is well over a quarter of a century sin...

Background in music theory and analysis. Polyphonic vocal intonation practices have been addressed in a number of studies on vocal acoustics. Our research both builds on this work and supplements it with a theoretical paradigm based on work done in the areas of sensory consonance and tonal attraction. Background in computing. Recent work in the field of music information retrieval has discussed...

Otto Rank, one of its members, as secretary entrusted with keeping the minutes of its proceedings. The first volume of these minutes, carefully edited by Herman Nunberg and Ernst Federn, is now available in an English translation prepared by Mrs. M. Nunberg. Its value should be great to all interested in the history of psychoanalysis, and no less to those interested in the history of ideas. A g...

The connection between aesthetics and numbers dates back to pre-Socratic times. Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle worked on quantitative expressions of proportion and beauty such as the golden ratio. Pythagoreans, for instance, quantified " harmonious " musical intervals in terms of proportions (ratios) of the first few whole numbers: a unison is 1:1, octave is 2:1, perfect fifth is 3:2, perfect...

1 musicSpace: Improving Access to Musicological Data mc schraefel, David Bretherton, Daniel Alexander Smith, and Joe Lambert Problem Not unlike the sciences, musicological data is widely distributed and exists in numerous formats and in many databases. Efforts over the past decade to digitize bibliographies, artists’ works lists, recordings, program guides and related ephemera should mean that ...

Цель исследования – анализ оперного наследия А. С. Аренского и определение традиционных новаторских черт в его операх. Оперное наследие выдающегося русского композитора рассматривается соотношении с процессами развития отечественной художественной культуры Серебряного века. Материалами послужили оперы «Сон на Волге», «Рафаэль», «Наль Дамаянти», а также результаты научных изысканий российских му...

It is an ancient, and very pervasive, idea that music expresses emotion. Apart from the copious literature to this effect contributed by composers, musicologists, and philosophers , there is also solid empirical evidence from psychological research, reviewed in chapters of this book (e.g. Gabrielsson & Lindström, this volume; Juslin, this volume), that listeners often agree rather strongly abou...

Sample retrieval remains a central problem in the creative process of making electronic dance music. This paper describes the findings from a series of interview sessions involving users working creatively with electronic music. We conducted in-depth interviews with expert users on location at the Red Bull Music Academies in 2014 and 2015. When asked about their wishes and expectations for futu...