Connected to What?

01 January 1997 Babbage and His Calculating Engines (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1961), 247. 3Swift, op. cit., p. 153. authors: Jonathan Berger author_ids: 1087 authors: Jonathan Berger author_ids: 1087

Is It Possible to Sing the Prologue to Orlando di Lasso’s [i]Prophetiae Sibyllarum[/i] in Tune?

05 June 2013 Abstract All tuning systems except equal temperament (ET) have small irreconcilable mathematical discrepancies. In particular, just intonation (JI), espoused by Zarlino and other Renaissance theorists as an ideal tuning system, was already known in the...

The Other World Music: Percussion as Purveyor of Cultural Cues in Exotic Lounge Music

01 October 2009 In the 1950s, a pianist named Martin Denny made a percussion-heavy recording of a tune called “Quiet Village.” This recording reached Number 4 on Billboard’s Hot 100 music chart and became the most popular song on Denny’s Exotica album (1957).1 The...