In several senses, Hall cuts a better figure here than in Charlotte Hall's Memoirs. Nevertheless, the remnants of the earlier "spouseography" are often still visible, despite Manuel's apparent awareness of the historiographic implications of using Charlotte's work as a primary source (p. 23). Some instances are trivial. For example, Hall's trip to the Scottish Highlands is alluded to by Manuel ...

We evaluated cerebral activation maps of 43 subjects with respect to their classical singing skills. Professional opera singers, music conservatory vocal students, and medical students overtly sung parts of an Italian aria in a sparse sampling functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) experiment. Professional opera singers compared to medical students revealed increased activation in bilateral dorso...

As the d esig n-m anu factu ring interface becom es increasing ly com plicated with IC technolog y scaling , the correspond ing process variability poses g reat challeng es for nanoscale analog / R F d esig n. D esig n optim ization based on the enu m eration of process corners has been wid ely u sed , bu t can su ff er from ineffi ciency and overd esig n. In this paper we propose to form u lat...

GEORGIUS PURKIRCHER, Opera quae supersunt omnia, ed. Miloslaus Okal, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, new series, vol. 10, Budapest, Akademiai Kiado, 1988, 8vo, pp. 255, £1 1.00. Despite the existence of substantial biography, written in Hungarian in 1941, Georgius Purkircher (c. 1533-77) has never been a name to conjure with. He is known, if at all, only for a long poem on the...

Current melody extraction approaches perform poorly on the genre of opera [1, 2]. The singer’s formant is defined as a prominent spectral-envelope peak around 3 kHz found in the singing of professional Western opera singers [3]. In this paper we introduce a novel melody extraction algorithm based on this feature for opera signals. At the front end, it automatically detects the singer’s formant ...