【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 aesthetics of spiritual practice and the creation of moral and musical subjectivities in Aleppo,
This essay analyzes the performance of dhikr (the invocation of God through prayer, song, and movement) in Aleppo, Syria, as an embodied practice mediated by specific repertoires of aesthetic and kinesthetic practices. In dhikr, aesthetic stimuli produce
Music improves dopaminergic neurotransmission: demonstration based on the effect of music on blood p
The mechanism by which music modifies brain function is not clear. Clinical findings indicate that music reduces blood pressure in various patients. We investigated the effect of music on blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Previous s
Emotional effects of startling background music during reading news reports: The moderating influenc
We examined the moderating influence of dispositional behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and behavioral activation system (BAS) sensitivities on the relationship of startling background music with emotion-related subjective and physiological responses eli
Can musical transformations be implicitly learned?
The dominant theory of what people can learn implicitly is that they learn chunks of adjacent elements in sequences. A type of musical grammar that goes beyond specifying allowable chunks is provided by serialist or 12-tone music. The rules constitute ope
Losev's development of themes from Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, and early 20th century Russians' interpretations and embellishments of it, informed Losev's theories of music and myth and his studies of the religions of Apollo and Dionysus. His complex musical aesthetic includes the
On the religious foundations of A. F. Losev's philosophy of music
The article considers A. F. Losev's philosophy of music in the context of his entire religious worldview and as the part of his Christian-Neoplatonic philosophy. Synthesizing Pythagorean-Platonic and Romantic musical doctrines, Losev concludes: music is
World music: deterritorializing place and identity
Music has been neglected in geography, yet the rise of 'world music' exemplifies the multiple ways in which places are constructed, commodified and contested. Music from distant and 'exotic' places has long entered the western canon, yet the pace of d
You know what I want to hear - The music of 'Casablanca' (Curtiz's film, Steiner'
The author provides an analysis of how Max Steiner wove diegetic and nondiegetic music in Casablanca (1942) into a meaningful score that illuminates and connects the political and romantic conflicts and themes in the film. The analysis includes background
'Cop Rock' revisited - Unsung series and musical hinge in cross-genre evolution
Hindsight and context reveal that, despite its critical and commercial failure, Steven Bochco's police musical/drama Cop Rock (ABC, 1990) represents a plausible progression of permission and possibility for music and narrative in television. The unsung s
A connectionist approach to automatic transcription of polyphonic piano music
In this paper, we present a connectionist approach to automatic transcription of polyphonic piano music. We first compare the performance of several neural network models on the task of recognizing tones from time-frequency representation of a musical sig
At the crossroads of evolutionary computation and music: Self-programming synthesizers, swarm orches
This paper introduces three approaches to using Evolutionary Computation (EC) in Music (namely, engineering, creative and musicological approaches) and discusses examples of representative systems that have been developed within the last decade, with emph
Stimulating music increases motor coordination in patients afflicted with Morbus Parkinson
The present study measured the short-term effect of special stimulating music on motor coordination in Parkinson patients. Eleven patients with a dominant akinetic Parkinson syndrome as well as ten healthy persons (age-matched control group) participated
The music of speech:: Music training facilitates pitch processing in both music and language
The main aim of the present experiment was to determine whether extensive musical training facilitates pitch contour processing not only in music but also in language. We used a parametric manipulation of final notes or words' fundamental frequency (F0),
Long play: adult-oriented popular music and the temporal logics of the post-war sound recording indu
While the historiography of post-war popular music has tended to emphasize radical musical stylistic breaks and cultural ruptures, industrial continuities between the adult-oriented popular music of the 1950s and the youth-oriented music of the rock era (
Playing piano in the mind -: an fMRI study on music imagery and performance in pianists
Reading of musical notes and playing piano is a very complex motor task which requires years of practice. In addition to motor skills, rapid and effective visuomotor transformation as well as processing of the different components of music like pitch, rhy