Aidevah

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by Aidevah 10mo ago
> He was a nepo baby with a big purse. Interesting interpretation of "he was orphaned at 10 and left with nothing and had to go and live with his brother".
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by Aidevah 11mo ago
A lot of modern packages which began outside emacs have now been gradually been merged into the main emacs tree and come pre-installed (use-package for clean per package configuration, eglot for LSP support, tree-sitter, which-key etc). So
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by Aidevah 1y ago
That Byrd is very nice! The individual voices came across very well on my IEMs. I'm used to reverb as well, and the complete lack of reverb in these recordings still sound a little weird to me, as if they are singing in a closet. But e
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by Aidevah 1y ago
A recent recording of Obrecht masses had close mic, recorded in a studio usually used for pop music with very little echo, with one voice per part [1]. The effect really is quite startling. The last time choral music was recorded like this
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by Aidevah 1y ago
The main reason for the commotion during the Paris premiere seems to be the publicity which whipped up the audience on both sides and made a clash inevitable. The Russian ballet had been playing the snobbery of the Paris audience for Stravi
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by Aidevah 1y ago
> Universalism: that is the intellectual realm abutting utopianism and ethnocentrism. "There are universal values, and they happen to be mine," was Stanley Hoffman’s delightful definition of the latter. Like utopianism and eth
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by Aidevah 1y ago
Looks like the crew were manning the yards[1] as they went out to sea. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_(sailing)#Manning_the_yar...
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by Aidevah 1y ago
Great job! For converting music to readable images, the latex of music typesetting is lilypond, which has the ability to create legible music at any size by scaling the notational glyphs accordingly[1]. This sounds like what you were trying
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by Aidevah 1y ago
Isn't Mytilene a city while the island itself is called Lesvos?
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by Aidevah 2y ago
I recall that Charles Rosen wrote somewhere that one of the reasons the string quartet took off in the classical period was that it allowed the playing of all the notes in a dominant seventh chord without double stops. Although this was pro
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by Aidevah 2y ago
> Unless you’re doing some fairly exotic things where you’re finding yourself saying things like >> Oh yeah the OCR on Japanese driving licenses pops out things like “平成 8”, that’s just how they sometimes say 1996 over there. That’
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by Aidevah 2y ago
Yes, although they are either juvenilia or relatively small pieces that would not greatly change our understanding of the composer in question. On the other hand there is another piece of music "recovered" this year not by redisco
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A modest proposal for the regulation of comedy(newstatesman.com)
9 points by Aidevah 2y ago|3 comments
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by Aidevah 2y ago
> Shakespeare plays were made for broad appeal (he was a professional playwright, after all). Mozart's music was made for the broad appeal. This statement is misleading because the broad appeal of both Shakespeare and Mozart today
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by Aidevah 2y ago
> In the end, maybe the crucial difference between those who read once and those who reread is an attitude toward time, or more precisely, death. The most obvious argument against rereading is, of course, that there just isn’t enough tim
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The Workings of the Spirit(nybooks.com)
2 points by Aidevah 2y ago|0 comments
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by Aidevah 2y ago
It's not at all surprising since Benjamin's tract was notoriously impenetrable, even to his original examiners, which resulted in his habilitation being rejected. Not to mention that the Origins of the German Trauerspiel only re
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by Aidevah 2y ago
Very true. Here's Dr Johnson: > What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we re
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by Aidevah 2y ago
The late and great Richard Taruskin used this incident to frame a book review in the New Republic[1]. Many people have commented on the location of Bell's stunt, which was chosen to deliberately make a point. I think it's more int
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by Aidevah 2y ago
A fine article on the role of timbre which is indeed discussed little compared to the focus on harmony and form for classical music. Charles Rosen gave one possible reason for this neglect in his book "Piano Notes", where he trace
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by Aidevah 2y ago
It should be mentioned that "old" violins that are still used today have all been substantially rebuilt to accommodate later repertories. There is a lot of difference between an early Baroque violin and a late 19th century violin
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by Aidevah 2y ago
The survival rate for certain 15th/16th codices in Western Europe aren't great either. From England there are only three choirbooks (Eton, Lambeth, Caius) surviving from the first half of the 16th century, when the catalogue from
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by Aidevah 3y ago
> “Almost all music is written with a strong melody line,” she said. “We call that the lead line. Then, the three parts that harmonize with that, usually they are written just to harmonize. And they do. With this dispersed music, each l
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by Aidevah 3y ago
This is partly true. Mendelssohn brought back the great religious works of Bach into the public consciousness (79 years after Bach's death, not 50 years). However, Bach was by no means unknown among the professional musicians, though h
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The Pursuit of Musick: Musical Life in Original Writings and Art C.1200-1770(lrb.co.uk)
1 points by Aidevah 3y ago|0 comments
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by Aidevah 3y ago
https://archive.is/Q1rhI
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Hobbes Was Wrong(newstatesman.com)
1 points by Aidevah 3y ago|1 comments
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by Aidevah 3y ago
LilyPond is incredible for the one purpose it's built for: engraving notated music. But music engraving is the usually the very last step of a compositional or editorial process. As such, other methods, even pen and paper, may well be
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by Aidevah 3y ago
> lauded translator of the Odyssey For comparison, here is the opening snippet of the Odyssey done by several translators: Richmond Lattimore (1967): Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he ha
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by Aidevah 3y ago
I think the French Pléiade edition is a scholarly/critical edition? Montaigne himself said that the main changes between editions are additions. From On Vanity (Penguin translation): > I make additions but not corrections: firstly

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