The music of the spheres

This article describes a method for making a spectroscope from scrap materials, i.e. a fragment of compact disc, a cardboard box, a tube and a digital camera to record the spectrum. An image processing program such as ImageJ can be used to calculate the wavelength of emission and absorption lines from the digital photograph. Multiple images of a spectrum can be stacked to reduce random noise, enabling spectra of faint objects to be obtained. Some basic experiments are described, such as viewing the spectrum produced by various types of lamp and the Sun. © 2012 IOP Publishing Ltd.

Music of the spheres received by radio of the spheres /

Mode of access: Internet.

Poetics of the Nameless Middle : Japan and the West in Philosophy and Music of the Twentieth Century

This study investigates the affinities between philosophy, aesthetics, and music of Japan and the West. The research is based on the structuralist notion (specifically, on that found in the narratology of Algirdas Julius Greimas), that the universal grammar functions as an abstract principle, underlying all kinds of discourse. The study thus aims to demonstrate how this grammar is manifested in philosophical, aesthetic, and musical texts and how the semiotic homogeneity of these texts can be explained on this basis. Totality and belongingness are the key philosophical concepts presented herein. As distinct from logocentrism manifested as substantializations of the world of ideas , god or mind, which was characteristic of previous Western paradigms, totality was defined as the coexistence of opposites. Thus Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Dōgen, and Nishida often illustrated it by identifying fundamental polarities, such as being and nothing, seer and seen, truth and illusion, etc. Accordingly, totality was schematically presented as an all-encompassing middle of the semiotic square. Similar values can be found in aesthetics and arts. Instead of dialectic syntagms, differentiated unity is considered as paradigmatic and the study demonstrates how this is manifested in traditional Japanese and Heideggerian aesthetics, as well as in the aspects of music of Claude Debussy and Tōru Takemitsu.

"Thought-Tormented Music": Joyce and the Music of the Irish Revival

"In this special issue's opening essay, Martin Dowling devotes almost half of "'Thought-Tormented Music': Joyce and the Music of the Irish Revival" to what he calls "the situation of music in the Irish literary revival." He focuses chiefly on 1904, which was both an intensely productive period for the revival movement and a year chock-full of crucial events and decisions for Joyce. Drawing on the works of Pierre Bourdieu and Jaques Lacan, Dowling explores the revivalists' efforts to "de-anglicize" Irish music, to remove foreign influences that distorted the "pure tradition of Irish song," and to achieve an improbable harmony between the music favoured by the disappearing Anglo-Irish aristocracy and the Irish-speaking peasantry. Inevitably, disputes occurred over what constituted "authentic" Irish music. Factions quarrelled over whether pristine Irish music existed in the Atlantic seaboard or more inland; whether "authentic" songs were sung with or without instrumental accompaniment; and whether the piano, rather than the traditional harp, was a legitimate instrument of accompaniment. Having delineated the historical and theoretical context, Dowling offers a richly detailed analysis of Joyce's story "A Mother." He reveals how almost every element in the story--from the Eire Abu Society to the Antient Concert Rooms, from the conflict between Mrs. Kearney and Hoppy Holohan to the plight of Kathleen Kearney--is charged with meaning by the subtextual conflicts of the revivalists' agenda. Dowling explains also the "authenticity" in Joyce's depiction of vocal performances of "The Lass of Aughrim" in "The Dead" and "The Croppy Boy" in "Sirens," which he calls two "true gems" of authentic Irish music." --Introduction by Charles Rossman and Alan W. Friedman, Guest Editors, pp. 409-410

The martial music of the clans : with historic, biographic, & legendary notes regarding the origin of the music, also portraits of highland chiefs & distinguished clansmen, with their seats, arms, etc. etc. /

Includes index.

Alte Meister des Klavierspiels; Klavier-Musik des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Piano music of the 17th and 18th centuries

Mode of access: Internet.

Music of the American Indian : Northwest (Puget Sound) : from the Archive of Folk Culture /

Mode of access: Internet.

Report on the teaching of music in the public schools of Massachusetts to the Committee on music of the State board of education.

Mode of access: Internet.

The ballad literature and popular music of the olden time : a history of the ancient songs, ballads, and of the dance tunes of England, with numerous anecdotes and entire ballads; also, a short account of the minstrels /

An expansion of his Collection of national English airs, pub. in 1838-40. Recast by H. E. Wooldridge and pub. in 1893 as Old English popular music.

Euterpe, a collection of madrigals and other music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Contains works by: Bateson, Thos.; Byrd, Wm.; Wilbye, John; Vautor, Thos.; Dowland, John; Lichfield, Henry; Rosseter, Philip; Campion, Thos.; Mundy, John; Ravenscroft, Thos.; Weelkes, Thos.; Morley, Thos.; White, Robert; Pilkington, Francis; Youll, Thos.; Bartlet, John; Gibbons, Orlando; Philips, Peter.

A guide to the opera : description & interpretaton of the words & music of the most celebrated operas /

Cover title: A guide to the opera.

The works of Allan Ramsay; containing his poems, songs, proverbs, &c. chiefly in the Scottish dialect: also the original music of The gentle shepherd ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The music of the church considered in its various branches, congregational and choral: an historical and practical treatise for the general reader.

Mode of access: Internet.

The music of the church, in four parts; containing a general history of music; including an account of Hebrew music, an investigation into the fitness of instruments, harmony, fuguing anthems, chants, choirs, etc., in divine worship; and notices, biographical and critical, of the most popular hymnic authors.

Mode of access: Internet.

A guide to the opera; description & interpretaton of the words & music of the most celebrated operas,

Cover-title: A guide to the opera.