Expanding the conversation: new recordings of Italian Baroque and galant repertory by Walden, DKS

Reseña de: Spiteri, Mevrick, The Houses of Baroque Valletta 1650-1750. Property redevelopment from records of the Officio delle Case: socio-economic reflections on civil buildings by Álvaro Molina

“…Reseña de: Spiteri, Mevrick, The Houses of Baroque Valletta 1650-1750. Property redevelopment from records of the Officio delle Case: socio-economic reflections on civil buildings. …”
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Characterization of Temperature Gradients According to Height in a Baroque Church by Means of Wireless Sensors by Sandra Ramírez, Manuel Zarzo, Angel Perles, Fernando-Juan García-Diego

“…The baroque church of Saint Thomas and Saint Philip Neri (Valencia, Spain), which was built between 1727 and 1736, contains valuable paintings by renowned Spanish artists. …”
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Orationes Funebris as a Part of Baroque Literature (Exemplified by the Works from the Trnava University Printing Office) by Erika Juríková

“…For a Baroque person, death represented the termination of an earthly life full of pain and suffering caused by unfavourable historical, social, and confessional conditions. …”
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Cardiac autonomic regulation during exposure to auditory stimulation with classical baroque or heavy metal music of different intensities by Joice A T Amaral, Marcela L Nogueira, Adriano L Roque, Heraldo L Guida, Luiz Carlos De Abreu, Rodrigo Daminello Raimundo, Luiz Carlos M Vanderlei, Vivian L Ribeiro, Celso Ferreira, Vitor E Valenti

“…We analyzed heart rate variability (HRV) in time (standard deviation of normal-to-normal R-R intervals [SDNN], root-mean square of differences [RMSSD] and percentage of adjacent NN intervals with a difference of duration greater than 50 ms [pNN50]) and frequency (low frequency [LF], high frequency [HF] and LF/HF ratio) domains. HRV was recorded at rest for 10 minutes. Subsequently, the volunteers were exposed to one of the two musical styles (classical baroque or heavy metal music) for five minutes through an earphone, followed by a five-minute period of rest, and then they were exposed to the other style for another five minutes. …”
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Silesian Painters and Sculptors at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in the Years 1726–1780. A Contribution to the History of Academism in the Early Modern Period by Artur Kolbiarz

“…Surviving student registers record the names of Silesian painters and sculptors studying in Vienna and offer insights into other aspects of education at the Academy.…”
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Významové obměny a vývoj funkcí u příslovcí "dokona" a "dokonce" v barokní češtině by Markéta Klimešová

“…Although these functions are not recorded in Jungmann’s dictionary, this article demonstrates that both dokona and dokonce had these features already in Baroque texts. …”
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Rediscovering Identity in the Past by Edoardo Rossetti

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On the Hierarchy of Saints on Altars. Visitation Records of Otto Friedrich Buchheim, the Bishop of Ljubljana (1641–1664) by Lavrič, Ana

“…The visitation records of Otto Friedrich Buchheim, the Bishop of Ljubljana from 1641–1664, offer an insight into the rules governing the disposition of saintly figures in altar retables. …”
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Os Menestréis de Lisboa (1960-1972): Santiago Kastner y la interpretación de la música barroca en Portugal by Sonia Gonzalo Delgado

“…This ensemble specialised in the performance of early chamber music using modern wind instruments. German Baroque and Georg Philipp Telemann were the core of their repertoire, but Kastner’s personal interest in the recovery of unknown Iberian repertoires, completed the agenda of this pioneer ensemble in Portugal. …”
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Piano Concerto Dataset (PCD): A Multitrack Dataset of Piano Concertos by Yigitcan Özer, Simon Schwär, Vlora Arifi-Müller, Jeremy Lawrence, Emre Sen, Meinard Müller

“…In this article, we introduce the Piano Concerto Dataset (PCD), which comprises a collection of excerpts with separate piano and orchestral tracks from piano concertos ranging from the Baroque to the Post-Romantic era. In particular, using existing backing tracks by the music publisher Music Minus One, we recorded excerpts from 15 different piano concertos played by five interpreters on various instruments under different acoustic conditions. …”
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The Diaries of Emperor Charles VI: “Sneak Peeks” into the Daily Routine of the Imperial Viennese Court by Stefan Seitschek

“…Combining diplomatic, political, and private contemplations, and offering valuable details about the monarch’s day-today routine, this study presents Charles’s diaries as an intimate and essential record of the Baroque period, as well as a unique set of records that reveal the Archduke-Emperor’s innermost thoughts.…”
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The Impact of Piano Styles on Muscle Force in Pianist Students by Iulia Toma, Elena Amaricai, Roxana Ramona Onofrei, Mihai Popean

“…In healthy piano students, the dynamometric assessment of elbow extensors’ isometric muscle force after playing three different sonatas (baroque, classical and romantic) showed that the lowest values were recorded after playing the baroque style. …”
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A SEMI-AUTOMATED METHODOLOGY FOR 3D IMAGING OF LARGE VAULTED CEILING PAINTINGS by J. Hindmarch, M. Hess, M. Groh, M. Burioni

“…We will present and examine two different case studies from the Plafond3D project, the baroque ceiling paintings of the Schloss Rheinsberg Spiegelsaal (mirror room) and the Ansbach Residence Festsaal (great hall/ballroom). …”
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Study of Silver Used in Peruvian Viceroyalty Objects through Chemical Analysis by Anibal Alviz-Meza, Andes De-Leo, Jose Barandiaran-Gamarra, Edwin Torres-Salazar, Juan Orozco-Agamez

“…A record of trace metals emitted during smelting operations are useful to estimate their quality and provenance. …”
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Prosaic as Poetic: Stylistic Characteristics of Matko Peić’s Travelogues by Marija Živković

“…In the poetic approach to the latter, three dominant stylistic features can be identified: a) the so-called masculine style of writing, presented by the use of augmentatives, the recording of brutal actions, the vigour and eroticism of style, sexualised metaphors, the parallelism of instinctive impulses of the animal world and intense erotic human pleasures, and a blend of aggressiveness, irony, directness of expression and undisputed tone; b) poetics of the descriptive, which is expressed through concise picturesqueness and picturesque lapidary of expression, synesthetic evocations, musical and painterly weft of texts and baroque-rococo characteristics of writing; c) perceptive focus, i.e., the ability to present in a naturalistically faithful manner a certain reality of life revealed in characteristic details and at the same time to perceive it in its totality, as well as to discover in everything observed a possible deeper, potentially symbolic meaning of objects, beings, animals and phenomena. …”
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Multivariate Characterization of Temperature Fluctuations in a Historical Building Using Energy-Efficient IoT Wireless Sensors by Manuel Zarzo, Angel Perles, Ricardo Mercado, Fernando-Juan García-Diego

“…This approach was followed at the baroque church of Saint Thomas and Saint Philip Neri in Valencia (Spain). …”
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Semantic potential of the lexeme twilight in Russian poetry by Natalia V. Patroeva

“…The chosen timeframe aligns with the initial recording of the selected lexeme, as per corpus data, with the second date serving as a conditional endpoint corresponding to the conclusion of the Silver Age of Russian lyrics. …”
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A Methodology for Discriminant Time Series Analysis Applied to Microclimate Monitoring of Fresco Paintings by Sandra Ramírez, Manuel Zarzo, Angel Perles, Fernando-Juan García-Diego

“…The famous Renaissance frescoes in Valencia’s Cathedral (Spain) have been kept under confined temperature and relative humidity (RH) conditions for about 300 years, until the removal of the baroque vault covering them in 2006. In the interest of longer-term preservation and in order to maintain these frescoes in good condition, a unique monitoring system was implemented to record both air temperature and RH. …”
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Survey of Risk Factors and Genetic Characterization of Ewe Neck in a World Population of Pura Raza Español Horses by María Ripolles, María J. Sánchez-Guerrero, Davinia I. Perdomo-González, Pedro Azor, Mercedes Valera

“…Ewe Neck is a relatively common morphological defect in Pura Raza Español (PRE) horses and other Baroque type horse breeds, which adversely affects the breeding industry; (1) objectives: to establish the within-breed prevalence, possible associated factors, and heritability of Ewe Neck in PRE horses; (2) methods: the database included evaluations of 35,267 PRE horses. …”
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