Let s Calculate Bach

Release on 2021-07-06 | by Alan Shepherd

Princeton University Press Marissen M (2016) Bach and God. ... Read in the German Edition: Die Theorie, die nicht sterben wollte. ... The British Psychological Society Prautzsch L (2000) Bibel und Symbol in den Werken Bachs.

Author: Alan Shepherd
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9783030637699
Category: Social Science
Page: 352
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This book shows how information theory, probability, statistics, mathematics and personal computers can be applied to the exploration of numbers and proportions in music. It brings the methods of scientific and quantitative thinking to questions like: What are the ways of encoding a message in music and how can we be sure of the correct decoding? How do claims of names hidden in the notes of a score stand up to scientific analysis? How many ways are there of obtaining proportions and are they due to chance? After thoroughly exploring the ways of encoding information in music, the ambiguities of numerical alphabets and the words to be found “hidden” in a score, the book presents a novel way of exploring the proportions in a composition with a purpose-built computer program and gives example results from the application of the techniques. These include information theory, combinatorics, probability, hypothesis testing, Monte Carlo simulation and Bayesian networks, presented in an easily understandable form including their development from ancient history through the life and times of J. S. Bach, making connections between science, philosophy, art, architecture, particle physics, calculating machines and artificial intelligence. For the practitioner the book points out the pitfalls of various psychological fallacies and biases and includes succinct points of guidance for anyone involved in this type of research. This book will be useful to anyone who intends to use a scientific approach to the humanities, particularly music, and will appeal to anyone who is interested in the intersection between the arts and science. With a foreword by Ruth Tatlow (Uppsala University), award winning author of Bach’s Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance and Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet. “With this study Alan Shepherd opens a much-needed examination of the wide range of mathematical claims that have been made about J. S. Bach's music, offering both tools and methodological cautions with the potential to help clarify old problems.” Daniel R. Melamed, Professor of Music in Musicology, Indiana University

Language: en
Pages: 352

Let’s Calculate Bach

Authors: Alan Shepherd

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-06 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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Authors: Alan Shepherd

Categories: German literature

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Language: en
Pages: 373

The Power of Distributed Perspectives

Authors: Günter Abel, Martina Plümacher

Categories: Philosophy

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-10 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

How do people and institutions manage to bring their different perspectives into an effective and productive interplay? How can we overcome obstacles for the creative potentials of distributed perspectives? Traditionally, the perspectives of people and institutions are considered to be fixed and isolated points of view. In such a picture,