【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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Play it again: did this melody occur more frequently or was it heard more recently? The role of stim
Episodic recognition of novel and familiar melodies was examined by asking participants to make judgments about the recency and frequency of presentation of melodies over the course of two days of testing. For novel melodies, recency judgments were poor a
The effect of music type on running perseverance and coping with effort sensations
Objectives. To examine: (a) the effect of music type on running time and on sensations and thoughts experienced by the runners under high physical exertion, and (b) the role that music plays in the use of two distinct self-regulation techniques during hig
Musical instrument classification and duet analysis employing music information retrieval techniques
The aim of this paper is to present solutions related to identifying musical data. These are discussed mainly on the basis of experiments carried out at the Multimedia Systems Department, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland. The topics present
Modeling and control of expressiveness in music performance
Expression is an important aspect of music performance. It is the added value of a performance and is part of the reason that music is interesting to listen to and sounds alive. Understanding and modeling expressive content communication is important for
Designing for intimacy: Creating new interfaces for musical expression
Contemporary musical instrument design using computers provides nearly limitless potential for designing the mapping between gesture and sound. When designing effective and expressive musical instruments, the types of relationship between musician/player
Robotic interface for embodied interaction via dance and musical performance
A substantial robotic interface is proposed for collaborative work between humans and machines in a multimodal musical environment. The robotic interface is regarded as a moving instrument that displays the reactive motion on a stage,while producing sound
Music via motion: Transdomain mapping of motion and sound for interactive performances
This paper presents a framework called Music via Motion (MvM) designed for the transdomain mapping between physical movements of the performer(s) and multimedia events, translating activities from one creative domain to another-for example, from physical
Human-technology interaction and music perception and performance: Toward the robust design of socio
A common framework for studying perception and performance in both human-technology, interaction and music is presented. The framework represents the cognitive challenges faced by both musicians and human operators in technological systems. In the percept
Teamwork in the performing arts
This paper addresses the nature of teams and teamwork in the performing arts, including symphony, chamber orchestra, chorus, and jazz, as well as musical theater straight theatre, improv, ballet, and puppetry. The results of an interview study of performi
Musings on music making and listening: Supervisory control and virtual reality
This paper offers two perspectives on the relation between music and supervisory control. The first is that music making can be viewed as a three-level hierarchy of control and feedback interactions. The top level is the composer or conductor interacting
Dynamics of brain activity in motor and frontal cortical areas during music listening: a magnetoence
There are formidable problems in studying how 'real' music engages the brain over wide ranges of temporal scales extending from milliseconds to a lifetime. In this work, we recorded the magneto-encephalographic signal while subjects listened to music as
Rap music genres and deviant behaviors in French-Canadian adolescents
This study investigated the links between the preference for 4 rap music genres (American rap, French rap, hip hop/soul, and gangsta/hardcore rap) and 5 types of deviant behaviors in adolescence (violence, theft, street gangs, mild drug use, and hard drug
Noise exposure of music teachers
A noise exposure survey it-as performed to assess the risk of hearing loss to school music teachers during, the course of their activities. Noise exposure of 18 teachers from 15 schools was measured using noise dosimeters. The equivalent continuous noise
Recorded music and practices of remembering
Despite a resurgence of work that has begun to examine critically the artefactual mediation of memory, very few accounts have focused upon the interconnections between recorded music and daily acts of remembering. Drawing upon in-depth case study-based re
Music preference correlates of Jungian types
The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationship between personality and music preferences, using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. It was hypothesized that the sensing-intuition dimension would correlate with overall musical enjoyment. Thu