The propriety of articulation, especially of notes that lack annotations, is influenced by the origin of the particular music. This paper presents a rule system for articulation derived from late Baroque and early Classic treatises on performance. Expressive articulation, in this respect, is understood as a combination of alterable tone features like duration, loudness, and timbre. The model di...

Background in history of music. The German Baroque music composer Georg Philipp Telemann was one of the most influential composers of his time with a large repertoire of musical styles. The reflection of musical influences of Telemann on other composers and the detection of musical influences in Telemann's œuvre are interesting research questions. Moreover, Telemann's approach to compositional ...

This work focuses on the study of the ‘‘calcare a lumachella’’ stone (Mt. Carrubba Fm.), a carbonate rock widely used as building and decorative material in the Baroque architecture of the Val di Noto (southeastern Sicily). Among all types of limestone outcropping in the area, this lithotype shows higher resistance to weathering. In such a context, the main goal of this study is to correlate th...

This project applies Zipf's law on musical pieces encoded in MIDI. Our hypothesis is that this will allow us to identify musical pieces that humans find “pleasing, beautiful, harmonious.” Specifically, we have identified an initial set of attributes (metrics) of music pieces on which to apply Zipf’s law. These metrics include pitch of musical events, duration of musical events, the combination ...

This paper presents a fuzzy analysis technique for pitch class determination that improves the accuracy of key finding from audio information. Errors in audio key finding, typically incorrect assignments of closely related keys, commonly result from imprecise pitch class determination and biases introduced by the quality of the sound. Our technique is motivated by hypotheses on the sources of a...

This paper explores two non-standard supermajority rules in the context of judgment aggregation over multiple logically connected issues. These rules set the supermajority threshold in a local, context sensitive way—partly as a function of the input profile of opinions. To motivate the interest of these rules, I prove two results. First, I characterize each rule in terms of a condition I call ‘...

Baroque, classical, and modern flutes have successively more and larger tone holes. This paper reports measurements of the standing waves in the bores of instruments representing these three classes. It presents the frequency dependence of propagation of standing waves in lattices of open tone holes and compares these measurements with the cutoff frequency: the frequency at which, in an idealiz...

Even in a safe programming language, such as C or Java, disobeying the rules for using an interface can cause exceptions at run time. Such rules govern how system resources are managed, the order of method calls, and the formatting of string parameters, such as SQL queries. This paper introduces Fugue, a modular static checker for languages that compile to the Common Language Runtime. Fugue all...