How are emotions expressed through music? Over five years, a team of 30 musicologists and data scientists has analysed over 3000 arias from 200 operas of the 18th century. The arias, 90% of which are unpublished, have been digitized and classified by composer, the emotion they convey, key, or instruments used. On the upcoming 21st […]
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His paper “Optimizing Feature Extraction for Symbolic Music” has been accepted for the ISMIR 2023 conference. The 24th conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) will be held in Milan, Italy, from November 5-9, 2023. ISMIR is the largest research venue for scholars, researchers, practitioners, and industries in the field of Music
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Conferences Parole del Metastasio: Opera and Emotions in Eighteenth-century Europe Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla | 4-7 May, 2022 Due to the COVID pandemic, the dates and location of the conference were changed. In eighteenth-century Europe, Metastasio’s work marked poetic, musical, and cultural boundaries within which the production of sung music
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Didone in Moscow – EUROMAC. Ana Llorens will speak tomorrow at 4.30 pm about “the factors determining the presence/absence and the types of contrast for the B sections of the arias beyond stylistic conventions” #euromac Her paper’s name is “Underneath Opera Seria Conventions: From Musical Contrast to Ternary Forms”. Don’t miss it, you can watch it
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Conferences Parole del Metastasio: Opera and Emotions in Eighteenth-century Europe Teatro Real, Madrid | 25–27 March, 2020 In eighteenth-century Europe, Metastasio’s work marked poetic, musical, and cultural boundaries within which the production of sung music developed for more than a hundred years. His vision of the world, and of human relationships and passions, influenced not
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After centuries, the timeless works of Baroque artists (architects and music composers) meet once again to create a one-of-a-kind cultural event. The town’s authentic historical premises resound with the tones of contemporary music: Sacral music echoes through the monastery church and the unique Baroque Castle Theatre becomes a stage for operas. Álvaro Torrente will be
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