David Bretherton

In search of Schubert's doppelgänger

Discusses some of the ideas about music advanced by Adorno in his essay Schubert, focusing on how Adorno uses a lied by Schubert--Der Doppelganger--to discuss the composers use of the diminished chord and modulation

Susan Wollenberg, Schubert's Fingerprints: Studies in the Instrumental Works (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011). xviii + 317 pp. £65.00. ISBN: 978-1-4094-2122-1 (hb).

Review of Susan Wollenberg, Schuberts Fingerprints: Studies in the Instrumental Works (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)

QWIC: performance heuristics for large scale exploratory user interfaces

Faceted browsers offer an effective way to explore relationships and build new knowledge across data sets. So far, web-based faceted browsers have been hampered by limited feature performance and scale. QWIC, Quick Web Interface Control, describes a set of design heuristics to address performance speed both at the interface and the backend to operate on large-scale sources.