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Resounding Through the Ages: The Seven Last Words of Christ

open access: yesPro Musica Sacra, 2023
The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has served as the source for innumerable musical creations spanning the centuries, including a colorful array of compositions inspired by The Seven Last Words of Christ.
Jacob Benda
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Geometrical analysis of architectural drawnings in the Shah-mosque Isfahan

open access: yesCurved and Layered Structures, 2020
The golden number has been one of the most important measures of beauty from ancient Greece till now. Although the reason still unclear, it is certain that the golden ratio has a direct correlation with beauty.
Goudarzi Masoumeh   +2 more
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On the Structure of the 16thcentury Madrigals on Texts in Fixed Poetic Forms

open access: yesСовременные проблемы музыкознания, 2022
Our study investigates madrigal settings of sestinas, sonnets and ballata with highly structured forms. They are, to a varying degree, unambiguously attributed to fixed poetic forms (formes fixes).
Larisa L. Gerver
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Lyamshin and Leverkühn [PDF]

open access: yesЛитературный факт
This article focuses on the literary, political, philosophical, and musical dialogue between Dostoevsky and his ardent admirer Thomas Mann, primarily between the novels Demons and Doctor Faustus.
Alexandre F. Stroev
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Teologiczno-estetyczne wyznaczniki sakralności dzieła muzycznego

open access: yesPro Musica Sacra, 2013
In the face of great music, a human being rises in the attitude of contemplative admiration, feeling the border of everyday life is crossed and the land of transcendental beauty entered. Joseph Ratzinger ‒ Benedict XVI is an experienced guide on this way.
Jacek Bramorski
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The Offence of Beauty in Modern Western Art Music

open access: yesReligions, 2013
In recent decades, beauty has become a largely unfashionable, even offensive notion within art and philosophy. As Eastern Orthodox theologian, David Bentley Hart, has pointed out, this offence has a twofold sense.
Peter Bannister
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Zorn: Avant/Après/Passé [PDF]

open access: yesAvant, 2012
Witold Wachowski’s brief exchange with John Zorn provides us with many valuable insights relating to the composer’s aesthetic. Zorn’s professed antipathy towards audiences, his faith in the creative instinct of the “artist,” and his belief in the ...
John Lowell Brackett
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Beauty, Ethics and Numbers in Boethius’ Quadrivial Treatises

open access: yesAisthesis, 2018
The convergence of the Neoplatonic/Neopythagorean approach with the Aristotelian organization of the sciences is one of the most interesting features that characterizes the two influential mathematical treatises on On Arithmetics (De institutione ...
Cecilia Panti
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Music, forest and man

open access: yesSilva Fennica, 1987
In Finnish music national forests and international urban culture meet in an original way. Around the last turn of century, composers believe they had discovered their spiritual roots in nature and especially in the forests.
Hako, Pekka
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