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Explaining my interests Unlike my colleagues who studied Physics with me at university, who all wanted to make fundamental measurements, my interest was in making difficult measurements in an industrial process which affected the quality or quantity of the product. For example, I was interested in moisture content measurement, and it did not matter for…

“Vistamusic” - Enabling through Sound and Music Introduction The aim of the program is to make it very simple to use and quick to learn but nevertheless be able to create a fine expressive performance of a piece of piano music, irrespective of ability to play the piano or the keyboard. On other words, to…

December 2022 The time seems right to write about Mozart`s Requiem, as there have been several performances recently and some discussion. A Requiem Mass in Catholicism is a Mass in honour of the dead. Mozart was very depressed at the time of writing it, partly because he thought it was heralding his own death and…

From a talk to the University of the Third Age on Baroque music Mozart was a great admirer of Handel.  Mozart’s reason for arranging of Handel’s Messiah was not because he thought he could improve on Mozart, but because, 50 years later, Handel’s music was out of fashion and Mozart was attempting to arrange it…

… but not ’Music Therapy’ which is a procedure used by “music therapists” This comes in three parts Part A.  Identifying the music which is therapeutic for the person  This vitally important. Fortunately, many people know themselves what type of music is therapeutic for them. Caution: it is not necessarily music that they would normally…