【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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Adults and children processing music: An fMR1 study
The present study investigates the functional neuroanatomy of music perception with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Three different subject groups were investigated to examine developmental aspects and effects of musical training: 10-year-ol
Musical structure modulates semantic priming in vocal music
It has been shown that harmonic structure may influence the processing of phonemes whatever the extent of participants' musical expertise [Bigand, E., Tillmann, B., Poulin, B., D'Adamo, D. A., & Madurell, F. (2001). The effect of harmonic context on pho
Vernacular culture and the place of folk music
This paper focuses on an evening event at the Community Centre, Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire, UK in 2001 featuring a group called The Chase, performing folk music and dance from France and other European countries. It raises a series of issues concerning th
Music composition by interaction between human and computer
This paper aims at constructing a music composition system that composes music by the interaction between human and a computer. Even users without special musical knowledge can compose 16-bar musical works with one melody part and some backing parts using
Don Juan de Austria and the venetian music trade
A recently discovered document sheds new light on the musical patronage of the Spanish royal family in the late Renaissance, and on the international music trade based in Venice. Don Juan de Austria, Philip II's half-brother, ordered the Spanish resident
Music therapy as a tool for assessing hand use and communicativeness in children with Rett syndrome
A six-year-old girl with Rett syndrome was assessed in a multi-disciplinary specialist therapy clinic and aspects of her responsiveness and developmental potential were found in the music therapy assessment. Functional hand use, eye-referencing, motivated
Adolescent boys' use of Emo music as their healing lament
Emo music is one avenue through which God can begin or continue a process of healing found through connectedness, sharing, and understanding. God can use songs of lament to bring awareness of pain. Emo music can also offer an environment for the suffering
Automatic identification of music performers with learning ensembles
This article addresses the problem of identifying the most likely music performer, given a set of performances of the same piece by a number of skilled candidate pianists. We propose a set of very simple features for representing stylistic characteristics
'Madama' Margaret of Parma's patronage of music
Margaret of Parma [Margherita d'Austria, Marguerite de Parme, Margaretha von Parma] (1522-86) was a notable patron of music. This article examines her patronage of music based on archival documents. Since Margaret and her husband, Ottavio Farnese, lived
Metonyms of modernity in contemporary Syrian music and painting
This essay examines painting and music in modern Syria as cultural practices that give voice to modernist sensibilities. I argue that two important spatial and temporal tropes structure the aesthetics of authenticity in Syrian visual and musical arts: the
Retrospective cultural consecration in popular music -: Rolling Stone's greatest albums of all
Acts of cultural consecration set sacred cultural producers and products apart from their profane counterparts. Some acts of consecration occur retrospectively. such as A Hen and Lincoln's examination of the retrospective cultural consecration of America
A music recommendation system based on music and user grouping
In this paper, we present a music recommendation system, which provides a personalized service of music recommendation. The polyphonic music objects of MIDI format are first analyzed for deriving information for music grouping. For this purpose, the repre
Heart rate variability with repetitive exposure to music
Previous studies of physiological responses to music showed inconsistent results, which might be attributable to methodological differences. Heart rate variability has been used to assess activation of the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous syste
Music-selling in Boccherini's Madrid
Luigi Boccherini remained for most of his creative life in Madrid, at a court traditionally viewed as peripheral, and in remote places such as Arenas de San Pedro. How this situation determined his musical style, the possibilities of coming into contact w
Digital recording and the reconfiguration of music as performance
Digital technologies art, transforming the lived experience of music in ways that may reconfigure relations between creators. mediators, and publics. Many uses of recorded popular music in the 20th century emphasized the canonical character of recordings