Song and dance: a memetic angle on the evolution of musicality and music via case studies of a musemeplex in Saint-Saëns and ABBA. [PDF]
Jan S.
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“A small, shabby crystal, yet a crystal”: A life of music in Wittgenstein’s Denkbewegungen [PDF]
Ludwig Wittgenstein's life and writings attest the extraordinary importance that the art of music had for him. It would be fair to say even that among the great philosophers of the twentieth century he was one of the most musically sensitive ...
Guter, Eran
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Símbolos axiales en la poesía de José Ángel Valente [PDF]
José Ángel Valente‟s poetry has a tremendous and unusual symbolic density. This density is favored by the author‟s dual aspiration to reach the spiritual limit of his creation, and the material one at the same time.
Aguirre-Martínez, Guillermo
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Methodological and musicological investigation of the System & Contrast model for musical form description [PDF]
The semiotic description of music structure aims at representing the high-level organization of music pieces in a concise, generic and reproducible way as a low-rate stream of arbitrary symbols from a limited alphabet, which results into a sequence of ...
Bimbot, Frédéric +2 more
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Gustav Mahler\u27s Kindertotenlieder: Connecting The Movements Of The Song Cycle Through Schenkerian Analysis [PDF]
Gustav Mahler composed the song cycle Kindertotenlieder at the beginning of the 1900s. Depicting a mournful subject based on the poems of Friedrich Rü;ckert, the Lieder explore the different emotions and perspectives of a grieving parent who has lost his
Fleetwood, Gabriel Quinton
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A System for the generation of tonal music based on transformations [PDF]
Most if not all of the approaches being used in the computer study of natural languages also have been applied to the computer study of music. Music theorist Heinrich Schenker (1867 - 1935) developed a system for the study of tonal music that is ...
Myers, Karl J.
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The Early Schenkerians and the Concept of Tonality [PDF]
This essay investigates the role that a single expression played during the years when Schenker’s ideas began to disseminate en masse, the so-called “concept of tonality.” In particular, it examines how three key Schenker disciples—Oswald Jonas, Felix ...
Koslovsky, John
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It Can\u27t Be! Faked Functionality and Ambiguity in Brahms\u27s F Minor [PDF]
A performance of any piece of music is not complete if the performer has not looked at the piece from historical and analytical perspectives. Having decided to perform the first movement of Johannes Brahms’s Sonata in F Minor, Op.
Kostenko, Kyle
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Melody generator: A device for algorithmic music construction [PDF]
This article describes the development of an application for generating tonal melodies. The goal of the project is to ascertain our current understanding of tonal music by means of algorithmic music generation. The method followed consists of four stages:
Dirk-jan Povel
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