Method for Creation of Original Music by the VR Panorama Based Virtual Instrument

Current software development directions open up a world of possibilities, especially in the engineering field. Present paper is meant to highlight the advantages and in particular the ease of using virtual instrumentation facilities, with a proper and adequate design and implementation of desired instrument. In this idea we bring into discussion a design for virtual instrument which can be used for data acquisition that can be stored for further simulations according to the needs required by the process in discussion.

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SERGEY PROKOFIEVâ€™s PETER AND THE WOLF THROUGH AN INTERMEDIAL LENS

Mousaion ◽

10.25159/0027-2639/173 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 140-154

Author(s):

Elma De Kock

Keyword(s):

Research Method ◽

Theoretical Foundation ◽

Original Music ◽

Folk Tale ◽

Sergey Prokofiev ◽

Poetic Text ◽

Practice Based Research ◽

The Media ◽

Artistic Product

Peter and the wolf is an intermedial work based on a folk tale originally written and composed by the Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev in 1936 (Hanson and Hanson 1964). Since few recent adaptations of the work in Afrikaans exist, a combined intermedial project was undertaken to recreate the work using practice-based research. The stages of this research method have brought forth a poetic text, the realisation of the original music, illustrations, and a voice artist to read the created text. To accomplish the final artistic product, it was important to obtain a theoretical foundation of practice-based research, intermediality, adaptation and the different media involved in the created word. The intermedial effects between the different media in the project provided the results of the study, stemming not only from the readersâ€™ simultaneous experiences of the media as they read or listen to the work but, as it also became clear, from the mutually complementary effects between the different media of which their combination provided a richer final product.

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DESIGN OF THE VIRTUAL DEVICE FOR THE SIGNAL SPECTRUM CALCULATION IN THE LABVIEW ENVIRONMENT

Visnyk Universytetu “Ukraina” ◽

10.36994/2707-4110-2019-2-23-12 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Tossenko O.M.

Keyword(s):

Virtual Instrument ◽

Spectral Characteristics ◽

Spectral Composition ◽

Automated System ◽

Signal Spectrum ◽

Measuring Instruments ◽

Specific Information ◽

Measuring Device ◽

Virtual Device ◽

Graphical Tool

The development of measuring instruments requires a specialist to know the principles of operation of advanced measuring systems. This article describes guidelines for creating a virtual appliance in LabVIEW. LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) is a graphical application programming environment used as a standard tool for measuring, analyzing their data, further ma naging devices and objects under study. LabVIEW language is not like other programming languages. It does not create a program, but a virtual tool, designed not only for the simulation of certain processes, but also for the management of hardware and the study of real physical objects. The article deals with the task of designing application software for a specific information-measuring device, analyzes the capabilities of the LabVIEW environment for spectral analysis of various signals, outlines the basic principles and techniques of programming within the framework of the LabVIEW graphical environment during the basic stages of development. The procedure for creating a virtual device is described, which allows to evaluate the spectral composition of the signals, presents a graphical code of execution (diagram) to the program and a graphical tool interface of the virtual device. A number of basic elements used to develop the program are described. The simplicity of the graphic designs, the ease of installation on the field of the program, the clarity and readability of the program — all of which makes LabVIEW preferred over other languages of programming. In most cases, the experiment is the only source of reliable information. And the result is achieved much faster than the methods of "pure" theory. The article substantiates the effectiveness of using a development tool that allows to obtain a software product and ensure the fulfillment of all the basic functions of an automated system. Developing a software algorithm for calculating statistical parameters will help engineering students understand the order of determining spectral characteristics and their place in the structure of experimental research.

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Child Composers in the Old Conservatories

10.1093/oso/9780190653590.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Robert O. Gjerdingen

Keyword(s):

Teaching Methods ◽

Classical Music ◽

Colleges And Universities ◽

Mental Ability ◽

Original Music ◽

Innovative Teaching ◽

Musical Works ◽

History Of ◽

Youtube Videos ◽

Typical Day

The original music conservatories were orphanages. Through innovative teaching methods the masters of these old institutions were able to transform poor and often illiterate castoffs into elite musicians, many of whom became famous in the history of classical music. The book tells the story of how this was done. It shows what the lessons were like, what a typical day was like for an orphan, and how children progressed from simple lessons to ones more advanced than any seen today in colleges and universities. Recent rediscoveries of thousands of the old lessons have allowed us to understand how children’s minds were systematically developed to be able to “think” in music. That is, the lessons slowly built up the mental ability to imagine the interplay of two or more voices or instruments. Today we think of Mozart as having a miraculous ability to imagine musical works in his head, but in truth many of the conservatory graduates of that era had attained a similar level of controlled musical imagination. They could improvise for hours at the keyboard, and they could quickly compose whole works for ensembles. The book is accompanied by 100 YouTube videos so that readers can hear what the lessons sounded like.

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“I Know Just What She’s Going Through”

10.1093/oso/9780199371112.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Nathan Platte

Keyword(s):

Original Music ◽

Delicate Balance ◽

Alternative Perspective ◽

Franz Waxman ◽

Studio Era ◽

Musical Accompaniment

Rebecca’s music offers the strongest argument for the style of musical collaboration Selznick fostered. Although earlier scholarship has focused on Hitchcock and Waxman, this chapter provides an alternative perspective informed by production records: how ideas and decisions flowed from producer, music director Forbes, and composer Franz Waxman to intermingle in one of the most compelling scores of the studio era. This chapter shows the extent to which Selznick and Forbes shaped the score’s formation and the degree to which non-original music from the preview score works in dialogue with Waxman’s associative themes, Robert Russell Bennett’s arrangements, and Leonid Raab’s orchestrations. Rebecca’s musical accompaniment epitomizes a delicate balance of collaborative tensions: the fruit of a system developed under Selznick and Forbes in the late 1930s.

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