In the musical output of modern Danish composer Bent Sørensen, genre instrumental concerto occupies leading position. The has written eight concertos, as well a number orchestral works in which particular solo instruments stand out. Based on their analysis, article reveals composer’s approach to this and possibility maintaining it. One characteristic features Sørensen’s is programmatic quality....

Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) continues to be the technology of choice for high-throughput analysis of complex proteomics samples. While MS/MS spectra are commonly identified by matching against a database of known protein sequences, the complementary approach of spectral library searching against collections of reference spectra consistently outperforms sequence-based searches by resulting ...

DIASS-M4C. a digital additive instrument. was implemented on the Argonne National Laboratory's IBM POWERpanllel System (SP). This paper discusses the need for a massivley parallel supercomputer and shows how the code was panllelized. The resulting sounds and the degree of control the user can have justify the effon and the use of such a large computer. DIASS, a Digital Instnrment for Additive S...

he purpose of the article is to exhibit this fact that embellishments, despite of their lexical meaning, do not play just an ornamental role in iranian classical music, but they have an extremely important function to form the structural facets of dastgahi music; in fact, the embellishments are irremovable elements in the mentioned musical system. first of all, some brief explanations about con...

This paper describes a new technique for the synthesis of musical sounds which we have named Scanned Synthesis. Scanned Synthesis is based on the psychoacoustics of how we hear and appreciate timbres and on our motor control (haptic) abilities to manipulate timbres during live performance. A unique feature of scanned synthesis is its emphasis on the performer's control of timbre. Scanned synthe...

There is an increasing need for automatically classifying sounds for MIR and interactive music applications. In the context of supervised classification, we describe an approach that improves the performance of the general bag-of-frame scheme without loosing its generality. This method is based on the construction and exploitation of specific audio features, called analytical, as input to class...

Score following was first presented at the 1984 ICMC, independently, by Barry Vercoe and Roger Dannenburg. By 1987, IRCAM was incorporating score following in concert productions. To date, ten IRCAM pieces have relied on score following to synchronize live electronics with flute, clarinet, percussion, and piano. We noticed quickly that algorithms which work well in theory, or even in the labora...

Contemporary approaches to literacy embrace digital and multimodal communication, and this is increasingly recognised in the syllabi prescribed by various education authorities across the world. Insufficient attention has been given to the evaluation of multimodal texts in ways which are semiotically grounded, accessible to the teacher and scalable to larger research studies. We present an eval...

In their article "Cultural Hybridization in a 1930s Taiwanese Popular Song" Mei-Wen Lee and Timothy P. Urban present a comparison of the three different sets of lyrics used for the melody of the 1930s Taiwanese popular song, "Moonlight Sorrow": Taiwanese lyrics used by Yu-Xian Deng and Tian-Wang Chou in their 1933 arrangement, Japanese lyrics by Kurihara Hakuya from the late 1930s, and Mandarin...