Bakhtin’s work has been appropriated not only for linguistics but also for different areas of knowledge such as Psychology, Education and Arts. Approximating this author’s work to the field of human development, it can be understood how dialogism and the Arts. In approaching this author’s field of language and human development, we can understand how the dialogism and polyphony can be evoked in...

We introduce the vsti-poly.cpp architecture for the Faust programming language. It provides several features that are important for practical use of Faust-generated VSTi synthesizers. We focus on the VST architecture as one that has been used traditionally and is supported by many popular tools, and add several important features: polyphony, note history and pitch-bend support. These features t...

This paper presents and discusses the idea that one reason for the success of collaborative problem solving is the polyphonic character of work in small groups. Polyphony, a concept taken from music, may occur in chats for problem solving, transforming dialog into a “thinking device”: Different voices jointly construct a melody (story, or solution) and other voices adopt differential positions,...

Abstract Under the reign of Duke Bolesław V, Poland lived through a period cultural prosperity with several newly founded monastic centres and productive scriptoria. Particularly important were two convents Order St Clare, by duke’s sister, blessed Salomea, his wife, Kinga. Both cloisters led in spirit royal foundations repositories medieval chant polyphony. While Stary Sącz (founded 1280) is f...

In this paper, we propose a novel clustering method to represent and compare works of symbolic music, in particular the music database Josquin Research Project. We also study results our methods on as whole, well for some specific cases. The that revolve around modelling activity twelve pitch classes (i.e., chromae) over time. suggest by activity, can capture harmonic progressions music. By con...