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Musical aesthetics and creativity in Beethoven: A computer analysis of 105 compositions.
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Dean Keith Simonton, 1987, 5:2, 87-104.
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A fundamental task in empirical aesthetics is to determine why some artistic creations earn the label "masterpiece" whereas others slip into oblivion. Computer content analyses can help us achieve this goal, first, by isolating connections between the differential aesthetic success of diverse works and their content attributes, and, second, by identifying the compositional, biographical, and historical correlates of those content analytical predictors. After reviewing the key findings with respect to the thousands of musical pieces defining the classical repertoire, this investigation strategy is applied to 105 compositions (containing 593 themes) by Beethoven. Two distinct measures of artistic impact, compositional popularity and aesthetic significance, were shown to be associated - often in a curvilinear fashion - with four content characteristics: melodic originality and variation and metric originality and variation. Some of these attributes are linked to such circumstances as the work's key, the instrumentation, and the number of movements, Beethoven 's age and concurrent level of productivity, stress, and health, and the presence of international war in Europe. Hence, an objective, computer analysis can enhance our understanding of the aesthetic and creative processes behind a single creator's artistic reputation.
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An aesthetic aspect of professional sport
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John Benjafield, 1987, 5:2, 105-114.
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How often does a professional sports team have to win in order to demonstrate that it is a worthy representative of its home city? The answer may very well be: 61.8 percent home victories for a hockey team, and 61.8 percent total victories for a championship baseball team. Both these values are the Golden Section, the most famous proportion in Western aesthetics. The fact that the Golden Section appears to be a regulating proportion in sport implies that it is an archetype, and operates in a way that is complementary to the Gestalt law of symmetry.
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Cognitive processes in reading literary texts: The influence of context, goals and situations.
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Dietrich Meutsch, 1987, 5:2, 115-137.
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Is literary meaning amenable to an explanation within the cognitive paradigm of psychology? A convention oriented explanation exists as opposed to an autonomous ontology of meaning. The central difficulty of explanation is its lack of empirical bases. The hypothesis that encoding —which is action and goal specific and retrieval are activated by specific conventions and caused by different types of elaboration and inference is tested. The dependent variables were studied in a 2 x 2 free recall experiment. The hypothesis mentioned was tested in a 2 x 2 x 2 recognition experiment. The results for a cognitive conception of literary meaning are significant. The methodological and theoretical consequences are discussed.
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An evaluation of university students as a model population in predicting performing arts attendance.
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Neil M. Kettlewell, 1987, 5:2, 139-144.
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In the present study, attitudinal and behavioral variables were found using university students as subjects which predicted attendance for ballet, interpretative dance, theater, art museums, and symphonies. The equations developed were tested for predictive accuracy on patrons of the ballet. The equations were found to predict even greater amounts of the variance in the ballet sample than for the student sample with the exception of the theater. The extent of the variance predicted, in the areas previously studied, i.e., symphony and theater, increased vis-a-vis these studies. Overall, prediction of variance ranges from a low of 44 percent to a high of 57 percent based on the performing arts group studied.
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The naive reader: Anarchy or self-reliance?
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Robert de Beaugrande, 1987, 5:2, 145-170.
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Though literary theorists have increasingly placed the reader at the center of the literary transaction, the expert or ideal reader has received far more attention than the naive real reader often found in ordinary settings. This neglect is usually justified with the argument that, being outside the institutional framework of criticism and literary study, the naive reader is likely to respond in a mode of anarchy, of mere subjective chaos. This article reports the results of a project showing that when such readers are encouraged to be self-reliant and creative, their responses are far more likely to be systematic and coherent.
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