2013
DOI: 10.1017/s0040298213000442
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Emily Howard's Lovelace Trilogy: A Musical Homage to a Mathematical Pioneer

Abstract: With Ada Sketches, for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet and percussion, Mesmerism, for solo piano and chamber orchestra, and Calculus of the Nervous System, for large orchestra, in 2011 the young British composer Emily Howard completed a triptych of works in which she drew decisively on the life and thoughts of Ada Lovelace for inspiration. Today, Lovelace is recognized as a pioneer of 19th-Century mathematics, who in her lifetime attempted to bring together art and mathematics in Charles Babbage's Analytical En… Show more

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“…December 2015 saw the 200th anniversary of Lovelace's birth, and a major symposium was held to mark the occasion. As part of the anniversary celebrations, composer Emily Howard conducted a performance by musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music of one part of her Lovelace trilogy, 'Ada sketches' [9]. By background Howard is a mathematician and computer scientist, and uses mathematics in her compositional process.…”
Section: Lovelace and Babbagementioning
confidence: 99%
“…December 2015 saw the 200th anniversary of Lovelace's birth, and a major symposium was held to mark the occasion. As part of the anniversary celebrations, composer Emily Howard conducted a performance by musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music of one part of her Lovelace trilogy, 'Ada sketches' [9]. By background Howard is a mathematician and computer scientist, and uses mathematics in her compositional process.…”
Section: Lovelace and Babbagementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Later, Howard studied mathematics and computer science at Oxford University before also taking composition lessons, 10 and she has been very much inspired by scientific and mathematical phenomena in her music. 11 For example, the orchestral works Solar and Magnetite represent attempts to employ magnetism as a compositional method, taking as their starting point the idea that sounds can attract and repel each other. This compositional approach also has a place in Mesmerism, and it will be discussed further below.…”
Section: ∼ ∼ ∼mentioning
confidence: 99%