Christiaan Huygens
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Explains how the modern system of equal temperament, trans-positional notation, 12 note class keyboard and key signatures were four causes which transformed western music and culminated in symphonic synchronism and jazz improvisation.
An artistic investigation into intrinsic interval structures in Nicola Vicentino's 2nd Tuning of 1555. The essay first uses a purely musical typography and presents specific characteristics of the tuning system by means of musical... more
Baroque Music History Topic: My topic will uncover the thoughts of Pythagoras and theories of intervallic relationships. I will research different articles on Pythagoras and also other formulas and topics related to his tuning systems... more
Galileo’s Parabola describing the projectile motion passed through hands of all scholars of the classical mechanics. Therefore, it seems to be impossible to bring to this topic anything new. In our approach we will observe the Galileo’s... more
Recent scholarship suggests that the music of Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas can be understood as a dramatic confrontation between “clashing harmonic systems” (Hasegawa, 2015). Building on this observation, the present article... more
Historically, Microtonality has been an important component of Karnatic Music, with the microtonal sruthi as the basic unit. Different authorities have ascribed different numbers of sruthis to each octave, with each raga taking different... more
Rembrandt keeps astonishing us. He marks the point that not by the brush or the palette he paints but by the light flowing from his mind !
Neste artigo, apresento uma análise de ilustrações de óptica presentes em materiais de grande repercussão publicados entre o final do século 17 e o final do século 18. Meu objetivo é mostrar que a imagética da óptica fundamentada em um... more
relationship. Ives supported Carter’s musical pursuits as a young man and remained a guiding influence throughout his career. As Jan Swafford writes, however, “Carter, whose mature music would owe a great deal to Ives... would pay back... more
As we take a look at the young generation of composers in Poland, one of the bright lights is Adam Porębski. As he underlines, his music can be described by such words as: theatralisation, interdisciplinary, micromelodies and algorithm.... more
Our workshop aims to present the tangent line with the didactical use of historical sources from Greek mathematics and Galileo Galilei. The discussion starts with an analysis of the definition of the tangent line in Greek mathematics in... more
In 2009, an unusual seventeenth-century table clock by Parisian clockmaker Isaac Thuret came to light in a French auction room. The unique shape of the case and empty holes on the movement plates strongly suggested that the clock had... more
Abstract The article deals with the specific interval relations in Lithuanian folk melodies before the 1940s, which may preserve archaic tuning in the vocal and instrumental tradition. A study of archival sound recordings of Lithuanian... more
This paper describes a 12-note musical scale generated from the ratio of consecutive prime numbers that is used as the basis for the author’s electronic composition The Music of the Primes. The scale is a type of extended just intonation,... more
CONTENTS TRACES OF AN INVISIBLE GIANT: SHARED KNOWLEDGE IN GALILEO'S UNPUBLISHED TREATISES 3 The invisible hand ofshare knowle)H 4 GalileB sunpublishe writings 5 The he)642 ofshare knowle)( 8 Example 1: Intuitive physics... more
Harry Partch’s microtonal tuning and just-intonation concepts have not only affected American microtonalists such as Lou Harrison and Ben Johnston, but also European composers interested in experimenting with microtones, including Georg... more
This work evaluates four violins from three distinct manufacturers, notably Eurostring, Stentor, and Suzuki, using a scientific approach. Eurostring1 and Eurostring2 were the names given to the two Eurostring units. The purpose of this... more
Slides of the paper presented at the Tenth Annual Meeting of Scientiae 2023 (Prague), as a part of the panel "Reassessing the ‘Scientific Revolution’: Key concepts and new case studies" (w. Marco Storni and Simone Guidi).
Is light wave? Or particle? Haven’t we often pondered over how Quantum Physics is rather Philosophy than mathematical derivation? Is it Philosophy or Physics? Haven’t you often pondered over why and how Compton effect bears a striking... more
In this paper it is shown the performing of an optical transform to state the scalar diffraction in the formulation of the wavelet transform and the 'wave equations'. From there, a bridge is build between equations of spherical... more
in C. Piazzesi, M. Priarolo e M. Sanna (a cura di), L'eresia della libertà. Omaggio a Paolo Cristofolini
In this article, we will present how we can create, organize and understand pitches of Just Intonation using 1) the theory of sieves (XENAKIS, 1992) to filter the numbers of the harmonic series, 2) the decomposition by prime-numbers... more