The relevance of the study. name Swedish composer and violin virtuoso Romantic era Amanda Maier-Röntgen is virtually unknown in Ukrainian musicology. Her work was forgotten for long time rediscovered by European (particulary Swedish) American musicians. But at one she first woman who received title “Musik Direktor” after graduating from Royal Academy Music Stockholm. She also perfected her perf...

Anecdotes suggest one-hit wonders peak early in their careers, but no quantitative investigation has focused on this issue in lifespan creativity. Here, recording count criteria were used to define samples of 89 one-hit and 89 “multi-hit” classical composers. One-hit composers peaked reliably earlier than their multi-hit counterparts, and this effect was stronger between more prototypical one-h...

throughout history dams have been important structures in water storage. to avoid overtopping, damage, and or failure of a dam, adequate spillway is needed to release excess water from upstream floods. researchers found that spillways have to be made nonlinear in order to reach an economic structure with high performance. a piano key weir is one of the best solutions. piano key weirs are the mo...

Abstract. DIGI-ORCH is a research project with objectives, on one hand, to design and develop "smart" brochures for concerts educational programs of the State Conservatory Thessaloniki (Greece), and, other, an innovative system visualization information smart mobile devices (smartphones tablets). The application Augmented Reality (AR) provides free access content above programs, combining robus...

The article examines the phenomenon of emotions as one leading patterns creation vocal score singer-actor, communicative intermediary between composer, librettist, singer-actor and listener-viewer. Opera a synthetic art unites together music, poetry, production, scenography, face-paint costumes. By means melody, its rhythmical intonational texture builds up ciphers those which singer must arous...

Since the beginning of Duke Ellington’s career as composer and leader of his own jazz orchestra in the 1920s, a common critical theme has been the comparison with European art music composers such as Delius and Debussy. Assertions such as Constant Lambert’s 1934 statement that Duke Ellington set a “standard by which we may judge . . . highbrow composers” focused on the complex compositional dev...

We propose a methodology to study music development by applying multivariate statistics on composers characteristics. Seven representative composers were considered in terms of eight main musical features. Grades were assigned to each characteristic and their correlations were analyzed. A bootstrap method was applied to simulate hundreds of artificial composers influenced by the seven represent...