News tagged with piano etudes


Creating New Ways for Audiences to Participate in Performance

Technology / Other

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Music Professor Jason Freeman created Piano Etudes, a Web-based application that allows audiences to participate in the composition process.





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Cigarette smoke could alter shape of heart

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Prolonged exposure to cigarette smoke can increase levels of the stress hormone norepinephrine and enzymes in the heart that have the potential to reshape the left ventricle, according to new research at the University of ...


Doctors boosting marijuana dosages

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 19, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Canadian health officials say doctors are increasing the dosages of medical marijuana they prescribe for patients.


Mammoth effort brings out the best in Beethoven

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 07, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 0

A professor of music has spent 10 years examining every note of every authentic source of every Beethoven piano sonata to produce what he feels is the truest representation of the composer's work.


Operate a piano pedal with the mouth

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 24, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A wish could come true for paraplegics who play the piano and are paralyzed from the hips down: the Heidelberg researcher Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Rupp has developed a method with which a pianist can operate the right pedal of a ...


Pianos, pasta and lollies: the maths of the good life

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 14, 2008 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

CSIRO mathematician Dr Bob Anderssen knows a thing or two about the good life. He does the maths that makes it good.


Why musicians make us weep and computers don't

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (28) | comments 0

Music can soothe the savage breast much better if played by musicians rather than clever computers, according to a new University of Sussex-led study published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE.


Astronauts to install new gyroscopes in Hubble (AP)

Astronauts to install new gyroscopes in Hubble

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- Spacewalking astronauts are about to tackle NASA's No. 1 priority in fixing the Hubble Space Telescope.


Child composers should not be written off, says music scholar

Child composers should not be written off, says music scholar

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Children as young as three have composed serious music which deserves to be ranked alongside more established works by older composers, a renowned music scholar has said.


Researchers make world's smallest piano wire

Researchers make world's smallest piano wire

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 25, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (46) | comments 0

Researchers from Delft University of Technology and FOM Foundation (Netherlands) have successfully made and 'tuned' the world's smallest piano wire. The wires are made of carbon nanotubes that measure approximately ...


Lasers can lengthen quantum bit memory by 1,000 times

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Physicists have found a way to drastically prolong the shelf life of quantum bits, the 0s and 1s of quantum computers.



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