The Eyes of Johann Sebastian Bach

The eyes of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Johann Sebastian Bach's only physical problem seems to have been his vision. Myopia seems most likely, and it is probable that he developed cataracts at an older age. In addition to the cataracts, his worsening vision may have been due in part to some other eye problem. During the last year of his life, Bach's vision became so poor that he decided to have his eyes operated on. Two operations we...

Sebastian

The work with Sebastian has centered around an attempt to correlate certain factors of efficiency in adolescence and an analysis of increased Binet I. Q. with increased physical fitness. Sebastian comes of American stock of average social status. His parents are of average mentality. There is no history of specific disease, but for some ten years the family finances have been at a very low leve...

Harmonising Chorales by Probabilistic Inference

We describe how we used a data set of chorale harmonisations composed by Johann Sebastian Bach to train Hidden Markov Models. Using a probabilistic framework allows us to create a harmonisation system which learns from examples, and which can compose new harmonisations. We make a quantitative comparison of our system’s harmonisation performance against simpler models, and provide example harmon...

Johann Wolfgang

Hoffman, Sebastian

meaning. The first OEC entry for this item, “Þhan may Þe saules in purgatory, By way of grace specialy, be delivered of pyn” (67) dates from 1340. Not until the eighteenth century are found such uses as, “I ... left the city by way of the Bowery” (OED, 1787, 69), in which the meaning is concrete, as a ‘path’ or ‘route’. This item demonstrates how the corpus approach in this study make possible ...