Eighteenth-century Spanish music experienced a golden age thanks, especially, to the proliferation of centers such as the chapels, which articulated and structured the musical life of our cities: the main sound activity was centered on ecclesiastical music, both liturgical and paraliturgical, with which religious festivities were solemnized.…[Read more]

Without fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few…[Read more]

Without fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few…[Read more]

Mensural MEI template for use with Encoding Mensural Notation with MEI slides. The slides are available at https://doi.org/10.17613/zqwr-xm82.

This set of slides was used both in a workshop, Digital Humanities in Early Music Research I, Session II – Early Music Databases and Encoding and in a Paleography course at University of Freiburg. They present the following topics: (1) A short introduction to MEI, (2) Basic Structure of an MEI file, (3) Examples, (4) MEI Technologies – Editors a…[Read more]

MEI template for use with the presentation, Codificación y publicación de música: Un taller sobre Music Encoding Initiative (MEI). Presentation slides can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.17613/fqbk-nz31.

This is a set of slides presented during the Semana de Humanidades Digitales (Week of Digital Humanities) organized by Digital Humanities associations in Mexico (Red HD), Colombia (Red Colombiana de Humanidades Digitales), and Argentina (Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales). An MEI template (template_more_elements.xml) for use with the…[Read more]

The Measuring Polyphony YouTube channel has in-depth informational videos on using the MP Editor as well as short videos explaining individual functions of the editor. The Measuring Polyphony YouTube channel is organized into playlists that contain comprehensive training videos on how to use the MP editor: (1) Video summaries (1-3 mins) of how to…[Read more]

This article corrects misconceptions regarding the history of film stereo. I show that the technical and aesthetic innovations regularly credited to Dolby Stereo, to sound designers like Walter Murch, and to films like Apocalypse Now (1979) were not revolutions but extensions of surround-sound practices that Hollywood codified in prior decades. I…[Read more]

In the 1930s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences implemented a technical standard—known as Academy Mono, or the Academy Curve—that dramatically impaired the sound quality of motion pictures. This article accounts for why the major studios agreed to this restrictive standard. I argue that they adopted Academy Mono to curtail the pow…[Read more]

This article corrects misconceptions regarding the history of film stereo. I show that the technical and aesthetic innovations regularly credited to Dolby Stereo, to sound designers like Walter Murch, and to films like Apocalypse Now (1979) were not revolutions but extensions of surround-sound practices that Hollywood codified in prior decades. I…[Read more]

In the 1930s, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences implemented a technical standard—known as Academy Mono, or the Academy Curve—that dramatically impaired the sound quality of motion pictures. This article accounts for why the major studios agreed to this restrictive standard. I argue that they adopted Academy Mono to curtail the pow…[Read more]

The multimedia aspects of one of the most beautifully illuminated charters is in the focus of this paper.