Let S Calculate Bach

Author : Alan Shepherd
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030637699

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Let’s Calculate Bach by Alan Shepherd Pdf

This book shows how information theory, probability, statistics, mathematics and personal computers can be applied to the exploration of numbers and proportions in music. It brings the methods of scientific and quantitative thinking to questions like: What are the ways of encoding a message in music and how can we be sure of the correct decoding? How do claims of names hidden in the notes of a score stand up to scientific analysis? How many ways are there of obtaining proportions and are they due to chance? After thoroughly exploring the ways of encoding information in music, the ambiguities of numerical alphabets and the words to be found “hidden” in a score, the book presents a novel way of exploring the proportions in a composition with a purpose-built computer program and gives example results from the application of the techniques. These include information theory, combinatorics, probability, hypothesis testing, Monte Carlo simulation and Bayesian networks, presented in an easily understandable form including their development from ancient history through the life and times of J. S. Bach, making connections between science, philosophy, art, architecture, particle physics, calculating machines and artificial intelligence. For the practitioner the book points out the pitfalls of various psychological fallacies and biases and includes succinct points of guidance for anyone involved in this type of research. This book will be useful to anyone who intends to use a scientific approach to the humanities, particularly music, and will appeal to anyone who is interested in the intersection between the arts and science. With a foreword by Ruth Tatlow (Uppsala University), award winning author of Bach’s Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance and Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet. “With this study Alan Shepherd opens a much-needed examination of the wide range of mathematical claims that have been made about J. S. Bach's music, offering both tools and methodological cautions with the potential to help clarify old problems.” Daniel R. Melamed, Professor of Music in Musicology, Indiana University

Author : John Butt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521587808

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The Cambridge Companion to Bach by John Butt Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Bach, first published in 1997, goes beyond a basic life-and-works study to provide a late twentieth-century perspective on J. S. Bach the man and composer. The book is divided into three parts. Part One is concerned with the historical context, the society, beliefs and the world-view of Bach's age. The second part discusses the music and Bach's compositional style, while Part Three considers Bach's influence and the performance and reception of his music through the succeeding generations. This Companion benefits from the insights and research of some of the most distinguished Bach scholars, and from it the reader will gain a notion of the diversity of current thought on this great composer.

Author : Inge Koch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521887939

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Analysis of Multivariate and High-Dimensional Data by Inge Koch Pdf

This modern approach integrates classical and contemporary methods, fusing theory and practice and bridging the gap to statistical learning.

Author : Mattias Lundberg,Maria Schildt,Jonas Lundblad
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110680959

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Lutheran Music Culture by Mattias Lundberg,Maria Schildt,Jonas Lundblad Pdf

This volume presents a novel and distinct contribution to previous research on the rich Lutheran heritage of music. It builds upon a current surge of interest in the field, which resonates with a wider interest in connections between music and religion, as well as with cultural and aesthetic dimensions of faith at large. The book situates the topic in relation to recent developments within historical and cultural studies that have developed a more nuanced and positive view of the interplay between theologians and other cultural agents in the evolution of Western modernity during post Reformation processes of ‘confessionalization’. It combines conceptual discussions of key terms relevant to the study of the development and significance of an Early Modern Lutheran Music Culture with theological readings of central texts on music, analytic approaches to historical repertoires and material perspectives on its dissemination.

Author : Michael Lincolnhol
Publisher : Michael Lincolnhol
Page : 1047 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Late night editorial board by Michael Lincolnhol Pdf

[Tu Non-Speech] is a magazine specializing in horror topics, true and false stories, though ambiguous, but make the reader's spine cold. Since collaborating with [Tzuyu], An Da has always had a headache about finding a theme for the work. The new editor, Bach Hanh, is a hard and soft person who doesn't eat, making her tricks to avoid the deadline have no use for martial arts. Most of all, she wanted to go to the field to get material for the story, he also followed the supervision. An Da grabbed her backpack and went, just didn't know that this trip would drag both her and the handsome editor into mysterious loops with no end. The first place An Da set foot on was an old apartment building, the people who lived here all died in strange tragedies. This is also where she was inspired to write the first chapters of "The Gap".

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015025416911

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New York Weekly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brian Douglas Young
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781662916786

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8 Streets to Christ by Brian Douglas Young Pdf

Fate………is now seconds closer. Time to ponder life’s questions: Does God exist? Just ask a cell biologist, the Japanese ophthalmologist who fainted, or a listener to Bach's Erbarme dich, mein Gott. This book's 25 God topics exhibit Beauty, Order, Coding, and/or Design. Even Fate is designed…now closer! Come see the evidence for God. Why am I here on Earth? It depends: ➔ If God is a myth to you, then live like a tourist and pay the Fate fee later. But postpone the carefree lifestyle until you consider Pascal’s Wager within. ➔ If you believe that God exists, then live like a pilgrim with the enclosed Street Map to Heaven in hand. It leads you to a destiny that no eye has seen nor ear has heard. Pure joy! How do I get to Heaven? Glad you asked. Jesus answers with the Mark 16:16 verse – presented here as an eternity map. So your journey is clearly laid out, and it’s an easy yoke with Jesus beside you. Come run the map’s 8 streets… with Christ and to Christ. That is, if eternal happiness is your thing. Author's promise➔ A Christian book is a labor of love when it takes thousands of hours to produce it, it's granted an Imprimatur by the Catholic Church, and all author royalties are promised to be given to the poor. This is such a book. Rest in these thoughts, and in the adventure described within on our most precious Catholic faith. Come, and you will see.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Music
ISBN : HARVARD:32044044293322

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The Musical Review and Musical World by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Mitchell,Felix Salzer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0231513690

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The Music Forum by William Mitchell,Felix Salzer Pdf

The Music Forum

Author : James Huneker
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4066339533387

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Mezzotints in modern music Brahms, Tschaïkowsky, Chopin, Richard Strauss, Liszt and Wagner by James Huneker Pdf

"Mezzotints in modern music Brahms, Tschaïkowsky, Chopin, Richard Strauss, Liszt and Wagner" by James Huneker. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Bernard Widrow,István Kollár
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781139472845

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Quantization Noise by Bernard Widrow,István Kollár Pdf

If you are working in digital signal processing, control or numerical analysis, you will find this authoritative analysis of quantization noise (roundoff error) invaluable. Do you know where the theory of quantization noise comes from, and under what circumstances it is true? Get answers to these and other important practical questions from expert authors, including the founder of the field and formulator of the theory of quantization noise, Bernard Widrow. The authors describe and analyze uniform quantization, floating-point quantization, and their applications in detail. Key features include: • Analysis of floating point round off • Dither techniques and implementation issues analyzed • Offers heuristic explanations along with rigorous proofs, making it easy to understand 'why' before the mathematical proof is given.

Author : John-Michael Kuczynski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027292209

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Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind by John-Michael Kuczynski Pdf

What is it to have a concept? What is it to make an inference? What is it to be rational? On the basis of recent developments in semantics, a number of authors have embraced answers to these questions that have radically counterintuitive consequences, for example: • One can rationally accept self-contradictory propositions (e.g. Smith is a composer and Smith is not a composer). • Psychological states are causally inert: beliefs and desires do nothing. • The mind cannot be understood in terms of folk-psychological concepts (e.g. belief, desire, intention). • One can have a single concept without having any others: an otherwise conceptless creature could grasp the concept of justice or of the number seven. • Thoughts are sentence-tokens, and thought-processes are driven by the syntactic, not the semantic, properties of those tokens. In the first half of Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind, John-Michael Kuczynski argues that these implausible but widely held views are direct consequences of a popular doctrine known as content-externalism, this being the view that the contents of one’s mental states are constitutively dependent on facts about the external world. Kuczynski shows that content-externalism involves a failure to distinguish between, on the one hand, what is literally meant by linguistic expressions and, on the other hand, the information that one must work through to compute the literal meanings of such expressions. The second half of the present work concerns the Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). Underlying CTM is an acceptance of conceptual atomism – the view that a creature can have a single concept without having any others – and also an acceptance of the view that concepts are not descriptive (i.e. that one can have a concept of a thing without knowing of any description that is satisfied by that thing). Kuczynski shows that both views are false, one reason being that they presuppose the truth of content-externalism, another being that they are incompatible with the epistemological anti-foundationalism proven correct by Wilfred Sellars and Laurence Bonjour. Kuczynski also shows that CTM involves a misunderstanding of terms such as “computation”, “syntax”, “algorithm” and “formal truth”; and he provides novel analyses of the concepts expressed by these terms. (Series A)

Author : Tony Veale
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262045995

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Your Wit Is My Command by Tony Veale Pdf

For fans of computers and comedy alike, an accessible and entertaining look into how we can use artificial intelligence to make smart machines funny. Most robots and smart devices are not known for their joke-telling abilities. And yet, as computer scientist Tony Veale explains in Your Wit Is My Command, machines are not inherently unfunny; they are just programmed that way. By examining the mechanisms of humor and jokes--how jokes actually works--Veale shows that computers can be built with a sense of humor, capable not only of producing a joke but also of appreciating one. Along the way, he explores the humor-generating capacities of fictional robots ranging from B-9 in Lost in Space to TARS in Interstellar, maps out possible scenarios for developing witty robots, and investigates such aspects of humor as puns, sarcasm, and offensiveness. In order for robots to be funny, Veale explains, we need to analyze humor computationally. Using artificial intelligence (AI), Veale shows that joke generation is a knowledge-based process--a sense of humor is blend of wit and wisdom. He notes that existing technologies can detect sarcasm in conversation, and explains how some jokes can be pre-scripted while others are generated algorithmically--all while making the technical aspects of AI accessible for the general reader. Of course, there's no single algorithm or technology that we can plug in to make our virtual assistants or GPS voice navigation funny, but Veale provides a computational roadmap for how we might get there.

Author : Lorena Pérez-Hernández
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108476324

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Speech Acts in English by Lorena Pérez-Hernández Pdf

This book merges theory and practical activities to show how research on speech acts can be implemented in EFL teaching.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1992 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510007466329

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The Independent by Anonim Pdf