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Evaluation of Web access to historical sheet music collections and music–related iconography

open access: yesFirst Monday, 2005
Previous research within Music Information Retrieval (MIR) has examined audio and textual facets in attempts to retrieve information about the music itself, including humming melodies, encoding of audio for transmission, extracting bibliographic data as well as melodies and harmonies.
Wheeler, Maurice, Venetis, Mary
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STATUES OF SIRENS IN EGYPT; RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM AND ARTISTIC ICONOGRAPHY [PDF]

open access: yesMaǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Sīyāḥaẗ wa Al-Fanādiq (Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-Mansoura)
Siren is one of the nymphs accompanying goddess Artemis and is depicted with the upper body of a woman and often with the legs and feet of a bird. She is frequently portrayed playing a musical instrument.
Engy Fekry Abdelshahed Abd El Malk
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Origins and Evolution of Imagination, From Australopithecus to Modern‐Day Deep Learning

open access: yesWIREs Cognitive Science, Volume 17, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
From Australopithecus to deep learning, this update traces how imaginative generativity, vivid mental imagery, and recombines memory into novel scenarios that evolved as a survival engine shaping consciousness, culture, and even today's AI. ABSTRACT Where does imagination come from?
Kiranpreet K. Sidhu   +2 more
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Embodied Hermeneutics and the Challenge of Intercultural Understanding: Insights from Chinese Traditions

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 289-300, May 2026.
Abstract Efforts to understand unfamiliar philosophical and religious traditions are often constrained by hermeneutical limitations rooted in the dominance of Western conceptual frameworks. This paper advances embodied hermeneutics as a general model for intercultural understanding—one that grounds interpretation in lived and material expressions of ...
Victoria S. Harrison
wiley   +1 more source

Pictorial Depictions of Musicians, Musical Instruments and Music-Making in the Stammbücher of Paul Jenisch (1558–1647) and Johann Michael Weckherlin (1579–1631)

open access: yesDe Musica Disserenda, 2019
The Württembergische Landesbibliothek in Stuttgart houses a rich collection of Stammbücher, including ones compiled by Paul Jenisch (1558–1647) and Johann Michael Weckherlin (1579–1631). These valuable sources (Cod. hist. qt. 298–299 and Cod. hist.
Samantha Owens
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Osservazioni in margine sulla musica per l’immacolato concepimento della Vergine, al tempo di Sisto IV

open access: yesL'Atelier du CRH, 2012
The introduction of the celebration of the Immaculate Conception prompted a series of innovations in liturgical music that changed the foundations of music and developed the figurative theme of the Virgin Mary.One of the first official actions of Pope ...
Camilla Cavicchi
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Mans mnemòniques en l’Ars demonstrativa de Ramon Llull

open access: yesScripta: Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna, 2014
Aquest article recupera el concepte d’art de la memòria aplicat a les obres de Ramon Llull a partir de la presentació i el comentari de figures de mans amb finalitats mnemotècniques, especulatives i predicadores, que es troben en els manuscrits lul·lians
Anna Serra Zamora
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An Ethiopian “Renaissance” Queen? Mentewab as Protector of Arts and Patron of Iconography [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
In Ethiopia, the period from the late 16th and 17th Centuries has caused a controversy because some consider this period as Ethiopia’s recovery from religious, civil conflicts as well as sectarian discord, while others including Kofi Darkwah (1975 ...
Raita Steyn
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Musical iconography of Annunciation: personal experience

open access: yesAspects of Historical Musicology, 2019
Background. The objective of the article is to analyze the interaction, for sake of artistic unity of a work, of the musical, textural and theatrical structures and solutions in the contemporary opera as in a synthetic genre. The author uses his chamber opera “Annunciation” as an example of these processes and shows the ways certain dramatic and ...
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