Nicolas Ruwet (December 31, 1932 – November 15, 2001) was a linguist, literary critic and musical analyst. He was involved with the development of generative grammar.Ruwet was born in Saive in Belgiu ...
(as editor) Music, Society and Imagination in Contemporary France (1993) ISBN 3-7186-5421-0Musique, mythe, nature, ou les Dauphins d'Arion (Paris: Méridiens Klinksieck, 1983)Music, Myth and Nature: o ...
The son of the German painter Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1832-1932), he trained under Joseph Schwarzmann, and at Munich's Royal Academy of Arts. His family immigrated to the United States in the early 18 ...
Zoomusicologist Dario Martinelli describes the subject of zoomusicology as the "aesthetic use of sound communication among animals." George Herzog (1941) asked, "do animals have music?" Fran?ois-Bern ...
Many oscillators, including the human voice, a bowed violin string, or an Cepheid variable star, are more or less periodic, and so composed of harmonics, also known as harmonic partials.Most passive o ...
Rooted in the basic curriculum - the enkuklios paideia or "education in a circle" - of late Classical and Hellenistic Greece, the "liberal arts" or "liberal pursuits" (Latin liberalia studia) were alr ...
These four studies compose the secondary part of the curriculum outlined by Plato in The Republic, and are described in the seventh book of that work (in the order Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, Mus ...
The music that composers make can be heard through several media; the most traditional way is to hear it live, in the presence of the musicians (or as one of the musicians), in an outdoor or indoor sp ...
The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as the concept of cinema itself. On February 27, 1888, a couple of days after photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge gave a ...
In its early stages of development, television employed a combination of optical, mechanical, and electronic technologies to capture, transmit, and display moving images. Modern broadcast TV systems d ...
The word cabaret was first used in 1655. It is derived from tavern probably from M.Du. cambret. The word cabaret came to mean "a restaurant or night club" by 1912.By country French cabaret (from 1881) ...
Algeria-Somalia Country Location Venue Room Date built Seats Resident organizationsEgypt Cairo Cairo Opera House Main Hall 1988 1,300 Cairo Symphony OrchestraSouth Africa Location Venue Room Date buil ...
Much of the work on computer music has drawn on the relationship between music theory and mathematics. The world's first computer to play music was CSIRAC which was designed and built by Trevor Pearce ...
Sociological social psychology focuses on micro-scale social actions. This area may be described as adhering to "sociological miniaturism", examining whole societies through the study of individual th ...
Quantitative methods are often used to ask questions about a population that is very large, making a census or a complete enumeration of all the members in that population infeasible. A 'sample' then ...
