Species Counterpoint with a Moveable Tenor (SCAMET): Comparing Species Counterpoint and Polyphonic Music Without aCantus Firmus

Extending a Network-of-elaborations Representation to Polyphonic Music: Schenker and Species Counterpoint

A system of representing melodies as a network of elaborations has been developed, and used as the basis for software which generates melodies in response to the movements of a dancer. This paper examines the issues of extending this representation system to polyphonic music, and of deriving a structural representation of this kind from a musical score. The theories of Heinrich Schenker and of ...

Composing first species counterpoint with a variable neighbourhood search algorithm

Point-Counterpoint Counterpoint: The Treatment Decision Design

The comparative new-user design is a principled approach to learning about the relative risks and benefits of starting different treatments in patients who have no history of use of the treatments being studied. Vandenbroucke and Pearce (Am J Epidemiol. 2015;182(10):826–833) discuss some problems inherent in incident exposure designs and argue that epidemiology may be harmed by a rigid requirem...

Point - Counterpoint

Since 2003 the radiologist assistant (RA) was introduced in response to the severe shortage of radiologists and the increased demand for medical imaging services. Other non-physician clinicians, such as PAs, currently play an important role in the medical imaging environment. The article discusses the reasons physician assistants have found favor with interventional radiologists, and advocates ...

Antichains and counterpoint dichotomies

We construct a special type of antichain (i.e., a family of subsets of a set, such that no subset is contained in another) using grouptheoretical considerations, and obtain an upper bound on the cardinality of such an antichain. We apply the result to bound the number of strong counterpoint dichotomies up to affine isomorphisms.