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Fuzzy logic helps to integrate music theory and practice
2010
Among the many practices of composers, instrumentalists and singers which clearly correspond with fuzzy logic our focus here is on tuning. Different criteria have been used to select the sounds that music uses. A set containing these sounds (musical notes) is called a tuning system. Several tuning systems coexist in a classical orchestra. The pitches of the notes are different and very precisely defined for each system; however the consequences of small deviations from these theoretical frequencies are not serious. Actually, the orchestra members are aware of the necessity of reaching a consensus and adjust their instruments to tune well. Because of this, many musicians feel that the mathem…
Theoretical Physics and Category Theory as Tools for Analysis of Musical Performance and Composition
2018
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Knots, Music and DNA
2020
Musical gestures connect the symbolic layer of the score to the physical layer of sound. I focus here on the mathematical theory of musical gestures, and I propose its generalization to include braids and knots. In this way, it is possible to extend the formalism to cover more case studies, especially regarding conducting gestures. Moreover, recent developments involving comparisons and similarities between gestures of orchestral musicians can be contextualized in the frame of braided monoidal categories. Because knots and braids can be applied to both music and biology (they apply to knotted proteins, for example), I end the article with a new musical rendition of DNA.
The Pursuit of Happiness in Music: Retrieving Valence with Contextual Music Descriptors
2009
In the study of music emotions, Valence is usually referred to as one of the dimensions of the circumplex model of emotions that describes music appraisal of happiness, whose scale goes from sad to happy. Nevertheless, related literature shows that Valence is known as being particularly difficult to be predicted by a computational model. As Valence is a contextual music feature, it is assumed here that its prediction should also require contextual music descriptors in its predicting model. This work describes the usage of eight contextual (also known as higher-level) descriptors, previously developed by us, to calculate happiness in music. Each of these descriptors was independently tested …
International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus15).
2016
The 8th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus15) took place from the 17th to 19th of September, 2015, in Leipzig, Germany, a city with a strong academic and musical heritage. Leipzig was home to famous musicians such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert and Clara Schumann, and Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. It was where Wilhelm Wundt opened the first laboratory for experimental psychology in 1879 (Rieber & Robinson, 2001, p. 206), and where Hugo Riemann founded one of the first institutes for Musicology in 1914 (Gollin & Rehding, 2011, p. 140). Against this background was held a conference highlighting the interdisciplinarity of modern Musicology.Musicology itself …
"Ognuno per sé e Dio contro tutti!". Ricordi di Werner Herzog in Sicilia
2012
Il testo rievoca alcuni momenti del primo soggiorno in Sicilia di Werner Herzog, per la regia di una nuova produzione del "Flauto magico" di Mozart al Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania (dicembre 1991). In particolare, vengono poste in rilievo la concezione registica di Herzog e il suo approccio al capolavoro mozartiano.
Las texturas musicales: propuestas didácticas para un aprendizaje en clave audiovisual
2017
En este trabajo se pretende mostrar las ventajas de los medios audiovisuales preexistentes para la enseñanza de las texturas musicales, uno de los elementos del lenguaje musical más difíciles de reconocer a través de la audición. El primer criterio de selección de los audiovisuales presentados ha sido, precisamente, que las imágenes supusieran una ayuda fundamental para la comprensión de las diferentes texturas. Así, la propuesta se dirige a un alumnado de nivel universitario sin muchos conocimientos musicales previos pero con la posibilidad de conocer elementos básicos de lenguaje audiovisual. Además, se proponen distintos tipos de audiovisuales, lo que manifiesta la versatilidad de estos …
La música de cine como recurso pedagógico para la didáctica de la audición musical en los libros de texto de enseñanza secundaria
2014
La presente comunicación responde al interés de los autores por conocer la incidencia de la música de cine en el repertorio que se utiliza en los libros de texto de enseñanza secundaria para llevar a cabo las actividades relacionadas con la audición musical.