【Music】Article four: 'Digital music and critical music literacy'
The Society of Music Analysis report indicated that digital music often sits uncomfortably within a curriculum where the main focus is on the non-digi... [more]
【Music】Music-making for music teacher identity: perspectives from novice music teachers in South Korea
Music teacher identity is constructed at the intersection between musician and teacher. This study investigated the meaning of music-making among Kore... [more]
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Modeling emotional content of music using system identification
Research was conducted to develop a methodology to model the emotional content of music as a function of time and musical features. Emotion is quantified using the dimensions valence and arousal, and system-identification techniques are used to create the
Methodologies for evaluation of note-based music-retrieval systems
There have been many proposed music-retrieval systems, based on a variety of principles. How the effectiveness of these systems compares is not clear. The evaluation of some systems has been informal, without the rigor applied in other areas of informatio
Modeling timbre distance with temporal statistics from polyphonic music
Timbre distance and similarity are expressions of the phenomenon that some music appears similar while other songs sound very different to us. The notion of genre is often used to categorize music, but songs from a single genre do not necessarily sound si
Setting the tone with the tune: A meta-analytic review of the effects of background music in retail
Among the many in-store elements purported to impact patrons, background music is a leading feature of academic enquiry [Turley LW, Milliman RE. Atmospheric Effects on Shopping Behavior: A Review of the Experimental Evidence. J Bus Res 2000;49(2):193-211.
Efficient localization of synchronous EEG source activities using a modified RAP-MUSIC algorithm
Synchronization across different brain regions is suggested to be a possible mechanism for functional integration. Noninvasive analysis of the synchronization among cortical areas is possible if the electrical sources can be estimated by solving the elect
Structural and functional neural correlates of music perception
This review article highlights state-of-the-art functional neuroimaging studies and demonstrates the novel use of music as a tool for the study of human auditory brain structure and function. Music is a unique auditory stimulus with properties that make i
Dance/movement and music in improvisational concert: A model for psychotherapy
Improvised dance and live music played by the participants themselves define a dance/movement and music (DMM) model in which interactive, variable geometries of sound and movement open up a novel theatre for emergent imagination and drive the interplay of
Superstardom in the US popular music industry revisited
We test if there were 'superstars' in the US popular music industry between 1955 and 2003, and reject a particular version of this hypothesis. This contradicts earlier findings and indicates the sensitivity of the conclusions to the choice of 'stardom
When a few minutes sound like a lifetime: Does atmospheric music expand or contract perceived time?
In the first of two experiments, the estimated duration of a given interval was shorter when familiar as opposed to unfamiliar music was played, but only for respondents waiting idly; music had little or no effect on respondents engaged in a memory task d
Recurring harmonic walks and network motifs in Western music
Western harmony is comprised of sequences of chords, which obey grammatical rules. It is of interest to develop a compact representation of the harmonic movement of chord sequences. Here, we apply an approach from analysis of complex networks, known as ne
Audiovisual synchrony perception for music, speech, and object actions
We investigated the perception of synchrony for complex audiovisual events. In Experiment 1, a series of music (guitar and piano), speech (sentences), and object action video clips were presented at a range of stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) using the
Music, madness and the body: symptom and cure
Building on Sander L. Gilman's exemplary work on images of madness and the body, this article examines images of music, madness and the body by discussing the persistent cultural beliefs stemming from Classical Antiquity that underpin music as medicinal.
A new 17th-century Iberian source of instrumental music
The finding of a new musical source is always exciting. It helps to fill in gaps and bring up new questions to Music History. The recent rediscovery of a new Iberian source for instrumental music is no exception. From the rich musical tradition of the San
N-gram inverted index structures on music data for theme mining and content-based information retrie
Content-based music information retrieval and theme mining are two key problems in digital music information systems, where themes mean the longest-repeating patterns in a piece of music. However, most data structures constructed for retrieving music data
TR-MUSIC - A robust frequency estimation method in impulsive noise
Sinusoidal frequency estimation has been studied for many years. The MUSIC method represents a class of super-resolution methods based on subspace decomposition. However, the MUSIC method has poor performance in impulsive noise environments due to the pre