【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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The development of an after-school music program for at-risk children: student musical preferences a
An urban university music education department and an outreach organization partnered to provide after-school music classes for at-risk children. Fourteen music education majors were recruited to teach 125 first through fifth graders (6-12 years of age),
Music as nursing intervention for pain in five Asian countries
Backround: The use of music as intervention for relieving pain has increased in recent years, prompting its growing use among the people of the western world. However, among Asians, music has long been used for this purpose and continues to be so today. D
An experimental and analytical study of on-line digital music sampling strategies
Product sampling is an important marketing strategy for experience goods like music, but on-line digital music sampling has not been explored in the literature. Based on an experimental study, this paper investigates some regularities of digital music sam
Record and hold: Popular music between personal and collective memory
Recorded music is vital to the construction of personal and collective cultural memory. My examination of the interrelation between personal and collective memories of popular music assumes both that human memory is simultaneously embodied, enabled, and e
MusicCube: a physical experience with digital music
Listening to digital music on a computer has led to a loss of part of the physical experience associated with earlier media formats such as CDs and LPs. This paper presents a series of steps and decisions that led to the design of MusicCube, a tangible us
Support vector machine active learning for music retrieval
Searching and organizing growing digital music collections requires a computational model of music similarity. This paper describes a system for performing flexible music similarity queries using SVM active learning. We evaluated the success of our system
Flexible music retrieval in sublinear time
Music sequences can be treated as texts in order to perform music retrieval tasks on them. However, the text search problems that result from this modeling are unique to music retrieval. Up to date, several approaches derived from classical string matchin
Music improves sleep quality in older adults
The aim of this paper is to report an investigation of the effects of soft music on sleep quality in older community-dwelling men and women in Taiwan. Sleep is a complex rhythmic state that may be affected by the ageing process. Few studies have focused o
High-resolution direction finding from higher order statistics: The 2q-MUSIC algorithm
From the beginning of the 1980s, many second-order (SO) high-resolution direction-finding methods, such as the MUSIC method (or 2-MUSIC), have been developed mainly to process efficiently the multisource environments. Despite of, their great interests, th
Investigating emotion with music:: An fMRI study
The present study used pleasant and unpleasant music to evoke emotion and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine neural correlates of emotion processing. Unpleasant (permanently dissonant) music contrasted with pleasant (consonant) musi
Being there: creating music-making opportunities in a childcare centre
In this case study of the impact of professional development (PD) activities in music on staff at a childcare Centre, the researcher was also the provider of PD. The needs of the staff and their preferred mode of PD delivery were negotiated with the resea
Music during bronchoscopic examination: the physiological effects - A randomized trial
Background: Patients scheduled for bronchoscopic procedures are often anxious and frightened. Reduction in the state of anxiety during an invasive procedure may prevent some possible complications. Music has been proposed as a safe nonpharmacological anti
Sparse representations of polyphonic music
We consider two approaches for sparse decomposition of polyphonic music: a time-domain approach based on a shift-invariant model, and a frequency-domain approach based on phase-invariant power spectra. When trained on an example of a MIDI-controlled acous
Italians and music. Financescape, ideoscape and mediascape
This article explores the reasons why Italian contemporary musical life is generally considered to be below the standards set by other European and overseas countries, a situation that is all the more striking when the contrast with Italy's glorious musi
The move to artist-led on-line music distribution: A theory-based assessment and prospects for struc
New forms of digital distribution are dramatically transforming market structures in the recorded music industry value chain. We propose a model and theoretical perspective that take account both of the music industry's traditional value chain and distri