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Mozart And His Rivals: Opera In Vienna In Mozart's Time, John Platoff

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

New Software Composition Tools, Bruno Degazio

Publications and Scholarship

This paper briefly discusses a number of software tools developed at the author's studio through the course of research work into algorithmic composition. Most of the tools developed are directly related to recursive techniques; some, however, arise from more general techniques of algorithmic composition first described by Joseph Schillinger.

Examples of recursive techniques include:
• META-FRACTALS - separating musical content from recursive structure
• the Lorenz attractor and Koch snowflake as musical generators
• Iterated Function Systems as musical generator
• dynamic values in the logistic equation and the Mandelbrot set.

Non-recursive tools include:
• the Intelligent Interval Tool - …

The Spirit Of The Individual: A Portrait Of Beethoven, Ann Kramschuster

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

To perform music successfully, it is important to consider the "soul" of a piece, and to consider analytical aspects as well as biographical, historical, and musical content. The concept of the "spirit of the individual," a theme of the Enlightenment, was an important influence on Beethoven's music; by exploring the inspiration that motivated Beethoven and discovering how he translated and interpreted the spirit of the individual in his compositions, one can better understand the music and communicate its message. The thesis includes a detailed analysis of the Sonata in E major, Opus 109, which was then performed.

Basha Bella

Sheet Music

No abstract provided.

Does Music Theory Need Musicology?, Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

Understood as a search for "the abstract principles embodied in music and the sounds of which it consists," music theory casts a wide net: it calls for a comparative sample and insists on a systematic methodology. As " the scholarly study of music, wherever it is found historically or geographically," musicology casts an even wider net. In practice, however, it has not been possible to transcend historical and geographical boundaries. (How often have you read an article on contemporary rock in JAMS or on Asian music in 19th-Century Music?) Obviously, any attempt to explore the juncture between music theory …

Memory Biases In Left Versus Right Implied Motion, Andrea R. Halpern, Michael H. Kelly

Faculty Journal Articles

People remember moving objects as having moved farther along in their path of motion than is actually the case; this is known as representational momentum (RM). Some authors have argued that RM is an internalization of environmental properties such as physical momentum and gravity. Five experiments demonstrated that a similar memory bias could not have been learned from the environment. For right-handed Ss, objects apparently moving to the right engendered a larger memory bias in the direction of motion than did those moving to the left. This effect, clearly not derived from real-world lateral asymmetries, was relatively insensitive to changes …