In music there are several terms permanently used, whose meaning changed in time, depending on the historical moment or cultural space; among them, consonance and dissonance, diatonic, chromatic, and enharmonic. Tonality appeared during baroque era and was finalized by J.S. Bach. After that, it grew up in the music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt – for about 150 years. At the end of ...

As one of the main expressive feature in music, articulation affects a wide range of tone attributes. Based on experimental recordings we analyzed human articulation in the late Baroque style. The results are useful for both the understanding of historically informed performance practices and further progress in synthetic performance generation. This paper reports of our findings and the implem...

This paper documents the design, development, and extensive play-testing of a Flash-based Baroque music game, “Tafelkids: The Quest for Arundo Donax”, focusing on the tension between constructing an online resource that an audience aged 8-14 would find fun and engaging, and the directive to include historical information and facts, as well as convey some of the sounds, musical structures and co...

BACKGROUND Chronic classical music was reported to increase parasympathetic activitywhen evaluating heart rate variability (HRV). It is poor in the literature investigation of the acute effects of baroque and heavy metal styles of musical auditory stimulation on HRV. In this study we evaluated the acute effects of relaxant baroque and excitatory heavy metal music on the geometric indices of HRV...

The “New Science” of Galileo, Kepler, Harvey, Descartes, Boyle, Steno, etc., and the Baroque in visual arts and literature, are two conspicuous aspects of seventeenth-century European elite culture. If standard historiography of science can be relied upon, the former of the two was not affected by the latter. The lecture asks whether this is a “fact of history” or an artefact of historiography....

Received: 5 August 2005 Revised: 24 September 2005 Accepted: 28 September 2005 What happens if we abandon thinking about information systems (IS) in terms of fixed prescriptions or scientific models? What happens if we leave behind order, simplicity, sequence, and linearity, and in turn, embrace the sensuous, dramatic, vital, messy, and emotional? What a project for IT researchers! In this brie...