【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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Endo- vs. exogenous shocks and relaxation rates in book and music sales
In this paper, we analyse the response of music and book sales to an external field and a buyer herding. We distinguish endogenous and exogenous shocks. We focus on some case studies, whose data have been collected from ranking on amazon.com. We show that
Sexy media matter: Exposure to sexual content in music, movies, television, and magazines predicts b
OBJECTIVE. To assess over time whether exposure to sexual content in 4 mass media ( television, movies, music, and magazines) used by early adolescents predicts sexual behavior in middle adolescence. METHODS. An in-home longitudinal survey of 1017 black a
Spatio-temporal EEG source localization using a three-dimensional subspace FINE approach in a realis
The subspace source localization approach, i.e., first principle vectors (FINE), is able to enhance the spatial resolvability and localization accuracy for closely-spaced, neural sources from EEG and MEG measurements. Computer simulations were conducted t
Drug and alcohol-impaired driving among electronic music dance event attendees
Background: Drug-impaired driving has received increased attention resulting from development of rapid drug-screening procedures used by police and state laws establishing per se limits for drug levels in drivers. Venues that host electronic music dance e
Song recognition by children and adolescents with cochlear implants
Purpose: To assess song recognition and pitch perception in prelingually deaf individuals with cochlear implants (CIs). Method: Fifteen hearing children (5-8 years) and 15 adults heard different versions of familiar popular songs-original (vocal + instrum
Musical automata as dynamical systems
This paper explores the use of dynamical systems as a framework for understanding how musically autonomous behavior can be achieved in artifact. Just as dynamics has offered a breakout strategy for the perceived limitations of artificial intelligence, so
Bagpipe music
Ancient philosophy is in a bad way. Like all other academic disciplines, it is crushed by the embrace of bureaucracy. Like other parts of philosophy, it is infected by faddishness. And in addition it suffers cruelly from the decline in classical philology
A tool for generating and explaining expressive music performances of monophonic jazz melodies
In this paper we present a machine learning approach to modeling the knowledge applied by a musician when performing a score in order to produce an expressive performance of a piece. We describe a tool for both generating and explaining expressive music p
Punk's not dead: The continuing significance of punk rock for an older generation of fans
This article examines how older fans of punk rock articulate their continuing attachment to the music and its associated visual style. While sociological research on popular music audiences is well established, little attention has been paid to the articu
The perception of musical phrase structure:: A cross-cultural ERP study
Electroencephalography (EEG) was used in a cross-cultural music study investigating phrase boundary perception. Chinese and German musicians performed a cultural categorization task under Chinese and Western music listening conditions. Western music was t
Mobile networks and place making in cultural tourism -: Staging viking shipsand rock music in Roskil
Tourism has become an increasingly important asset for small and medium-sized cities. However, tourism is a vulnerable basis for the local economy of towns and cities as it depends on far-reaching, mobile and unstable networks of visitors, cultural indust
Cardiovascular and respiratory responses during musical mood induction
Music is used to induce moods in experimental settings as well as for therapeutic purposes. Prior studies suggest that subjects listening to certain types of music experience strong moods and show physiological responses associated with the induced emotio
Play it again with feeling:: Computer feedback in musical communication of emotions
Communication of emotions is of crucial importance in music performance. Yet research has suggested that this skill is neglected in music education. This article presents and evaluates a computer program that automatically analyzes music performances and
Classification of musical patterns using variable duration hidden Markov models
This paper presents a new extension to the variable duration hidden Markov model (HMM), capable of, classifying musical pattens that have been extracted from raw audio data into a set of predefined classes. Each musical pattern is converted into a sequenc
Learning absolute pitch by children: A cross-sectional study
THIS STUDY IS AN ATTEMPT to depict the learning process of AP in Japanese children in a cross-sectional design. In this study, 104 children of 4 to 10 years of age in a music school were tested. The children had been trained within a music education syste