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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Harmonic series"”.
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An analysis of the relationship between system size and structural differentiation within intercollegiate athletic departments
… of sport organizations using Zipf's (1949) harmonic series model.
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All This the World Well Knows: a symphonic cantata in Sonnets and Proverbs for mixed chorus, four solo voices, and orchestra
… just intonation of sonorities derived from the harmonic series. In passages in which the solo voices express this microtonality, they are amplified in order to allow precise, non vibrato intonation. The modest size of the orchestra, which includes pairs of winds and only two percussionists, …
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Internal Set Theory and Euler's Introductio in Analysin Infinitorum
… the Wallis product and the divergence of the harmonic series. All of these results have been proved in subsequent centuries using epsilontic arguments. In some cases, the epsilontic arguments differ significantly from Euler's original proofs. We will compare and contrast the epsilontic proofs …
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A Fundamental Frequency Data Acquisition System (FFDAS).
… listener perceives the lowest frequency in the harmonic series, the fundamental frequency (FO), as the pitch of the speaker’s voice at any given instant in time. Fundamental frequency in human speech conveys linguistic (semantic, syntactical, and lexical) information, as well as paralinguistic …
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The Tradition of Microtonal Guitar on the American West Coast
… that influenced new musical materials were the harmonic series and non-Western music and culture. Microtonal music in California is then examined through the efforts of a series of outsider speculative music theorists who experimented with building microtonal scales and instruments. One …
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Ways of integrating musical systems: a portfolio of compositions
… extended to the field of rhythm by means of the harmonic series as an absolute reference point defining frequency ratios. By examining (theoretically) the interaction of combinations of different frequencies, new ways of defining and even quantifying consonance and dissonance are developed. This …
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Scene Segmentation Using Polarisation Information
… the expansion of this function using spherical harmonics to estimate surface characteristics. The method begins with estimating shape from polarisation using the work of Atkinson and Hancock. The surface normals obtained are used in combination with pixel intensities to form a three dimensional …
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Towards a Perceptually–grounded Theory of Microtonality: issues in sonority, scale construction and auditory perception and cognition
… derived directly from the structure of the harmonic series. It contains an analytical survey of case studies relating to twentieth–century microtonal approaches, focussing on the conceptual and perceptual implications of the use of such materials by these early microtonal practitioners, …
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String Quartet I
… combined with vertical ascension through the A harmonic series. The A and A' sections explore unpitched percussive textures created using extended bowing techniques. Movement II, "Drops," represents a gentle rainstorm that rolls in, gradually at first, and over time gives way to a steady …
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Biloba for chamber ensemble
… systems based on palindromes and the Fibonacci series. Palindromes can manifest themselves in multifarious way, from the number of beats in a group of measures in a phrase to the unfolding of pitches in a musical gesture. One instance of the usage of the Fibonacci series is in the time of entry …
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“Hallo, Hallo! Achtung! Achtung!...” : a performer's guide to the Theresienstadt compositions of Viktor Ullmann for the mezzo-soprano
… and atonality, the importance of the natural-harmonic-series, careful prosody settings, the use of dynamics to increase tension, overlapping phrase structure, the use of polyphonic texture including imitation and canonic techniques, and equality between the vocal line and the accompaniment. As …
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A comprehensive study of the 26th December 2004 Sumatra earthquake: possible implications on Earth rotation and investigations on the coseismic and postseismic stress diffusion associated with the seismic rupture
… in order to obtain the convergence of the harmonic series of the stress components. On the contrary we imposed no constraints on the numerical method so we expect that the results obtained give a more realistic description of the stress variations pattern.
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A Portfolio of original compositions (Barry O'Halpin)
… The chamber quintet Difference Fumes builds harmonic palettes from combination-tone and harmonic series phenomena, while Stonemired for 8 musicians & electronics harnesses the sonified atomic spectra of chemical elements using spectral analysis and acoustic instrumental resynthesis. Similar …
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An analytical and experimental investigation of the response of elliptical composite cylinders
… of the cylinder is expanded in a cosine series. While elliptical sections are studied here, it should be noted that such an expansion will accommodate any cross section with at least two axes of symmetry. The displacements are likewise expanded in a harmonic series using the Kantorovich …