Music, Science, Statistics

Monthly Archives: April, 2009

Rhapsody in Blue

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QxWxsK8_3s[/youtube] If this video is as advertised, it’s fascinating to listen to.  It’s got schmaltz dripping from it in ways that many would find truly cringe-worthy, especially given the way that people tend to hear this work played today. Just how serious a work is this to be considered?  Almost a symphonic composition, almost a [...]

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Yuri Broze

Yuri Broze is a music guru and sciencehead currently pursuing a PhD in Music Theory and an MS in Statistics at Ohio State University. His current academic haunt is the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory, spearheaded by David Huron. Yuri is an award-winning choral arranger, has written on a cappella arranging, teaches piano lessons, tinkers with websites, and smells hardbound books.