【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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A model for music therapy with students with emotional and behavioral disorders
Music therapy has been used in a variety of ways to benefit students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD), even though little information on the specifics involved in applying music therapy to this population has been written. With proper plannin
Recurrent neural networks for music computation
Some researchers in the computational sciences have considered music computation, including music reproduction and generation, as a dynamic system, i.e., a feedback process. The key element is that the state of the musical system depends on a history of p
The origins of music: Some stipulations on theory
IT IS ARGUED THAT APPROACHES to music that employ evolutionary theory must seek to define 'music' as explicitly as possible. Without such a definition, the relationships between music and other domains of human and animal behavior must remain underspeci
The Cuidado music browser: an end-to-end electronic music distribution system
The IST project Cuidado, which ran from January 2001 to December 2003, produced the first entirely automatic chain for extracting and exploiting musical metadata for browsing music. The Sony CSL laboratory is primarily interested in the context of popular
Automatic summarization of music videos
In this article, we propose a novel approach for automatic music video summarization. The proposed summarization scheme is different from the current methods used for video summarization. The music video is separated into the music track and video track.
Attitudes of music teachers towards final examinations in the French music conservatoires
This research investigated the attitudes towards assessment of music teachers in Brittany, France. The relative significance attached to musical examination and the psychological attitudes of music teachers towards assessment were examined. Participants (
Teaching popular music in Finland:: what's up, what's ahead?
This article describes the history and current situation of popular music pedagogy in Finland. While popular music is widely accepted in the curriculum, there are differences in its application in the comprehensive schools and music institutions. Popular
Contemporary music student expectations of musicianship training needs
The practical training of contemporary popular musicians, that is, the preparation of performers, songwriters, and music production personnel for the global popular music industry, is still in its infancy. This article seeks to discuss the specific issue
Effect of music on patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy
AIM: To evaluate the effect of relaxing music during colonoscopy under low-dose conscious sedation, on patient satisfaction, scope insertion time and procedure duration, medication doses, and the perceived adequacy of sedation and scope insertion difficul
Popular music in Malaysia: education from the outside
The musical preference of most Malaysian young people, their knowledge of music in general and popular music in particular are shaped through informal music education. Factors that contribute to this include the wide dissemination of popular music, the st
Pop and world music in Dutch music education: two cases of authentic learning in music teacher educa
Popular and world music play an important role in Dutch music education. This article examines two case studies that illustrate authentic music learning environments in which these types of music are prominently used. The first case follows a student duri
Vernacular music-making and education
This article examines the division of music styles according to the conventional categories of classical, traditional and popular, and proposes the term 'vernacular' as a complementary way of viewing various types of amateur music-making among diverse g
Popular music education in and for itself, and for 'other' music: current research in the
This article considers some ways in which the school classroom enters into, changes and complicates musical meanings, focusing particularly on the role of popular music and how it relates to classical music. I suggest that in bringing popular music into t
Stress reduction and analgesia in patients exposed to calming music postoperatively: a randomized co
Background and objectives: This randomized controlled trial was designed to evaluate, first, whether intra- or postoperative music therapy could influence stress and immune response during and after general anaesthesia and second, if there was a different
Performing ethnography: Irish traditional music sessions and new methodological spaces
This paper attends to recent developments concerned with researching social practice, through an examination of the performance of Irish traditional music in sessions. The aim is to illustrate how to get at the spaces which are made through the practice o