【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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Music and aggression: The impact of sexual-aggressive song lyrics on aggression-related thoughts, em
Three studies examined the impact of sexual-aggressive song lyrics on aggressive thoughts, emotions, and behavior toward the same and the opposite sex. In Study 1, the authors directly manipulated whether male or female participants listened to misogynous
Study of the effectiveness of musical stimulation during intracardiac catheterization
Background Intracardiac catheterization is a routine physical examination. Due to psychological strains, several psychosocial interventions, including music therapy, have been proposed. The aim of the present study was to examine whether the preventive or
Inuit student teachers' agency, positioning and symbolic action:: reflections from a qallunaat
This article examines how three Inuit student teachers in the Nunavut Teacher Education Program invested their social and cultural capital during a music course for classroom teachers, which the author taught in the Canadian Arctic. She describes how, thr
Analysis of the meter of acoustic musical signals
A method is decribed which analyzes the. basic pattern of beats in a piece of music, the musical meter. The analysis is performed jointly at three different time scales: at the temporally atomic tatum pulse level, at the tactus pulse level which correspon
'Agricolesque, ou presque': for the Agricola quincentenary (Alexander Agricola)
This article discusses the author's recent compositional work on agricologies, a cycle in two books for viol consort and string quartet, commissioned by and written for the London-based ensembles Fretwork and the Kreutzer String Quartet. Agricologies inv
'High' clefs in composition and performance (Monteverdi)
Modern musicians have treated 'high'-clef notation like a dead language that has to be translated into their vernacular. In the 19th century the translation was achieved by substituting clefs and signatures, creating the false impression that 'high' c
Can music bring people together? Effects of shared musical preference on intergroup bias in adolesce
Recent research has successfully applied social identity theory to demonstrate how individuals use music as a basis for intergroup differentiation. The current study investigated how music might also be used to encourage the development of positive interg
Why the music industry may gain from free downloading - The role of sampling
Downloading digital products for free may harm creators and intermediaries because consumers may no longer buy the version for sale. However, as we show in this paper, this negative effect may be overcompensated by a positive effect due to sampling: consu
The poetic's of Sufi practice: Drumming, dancing, and complex agency at Madho Lal Husain (and b
I develop an approach to the poetics of music and movement, vis-A-vis Language, in the context of popular Sufism in South Asia. Bringing Michael Herzfeld's notion of social poetics into creative dialogue with Katherine Ewing's notion of the experiencing
Beyond the cover version: encouraging student performers to produce original interpretations of popu
David Brackett's notion of musical codes, discussed in his book Interpreting popular music (2000), offers tertiary music students an opportunity to think about interpretation and performing, about what is conveyed through performing, and connections with
A retrospective lyrical analysis of songs written by adolescents with anorexia nervosa
Song-writing plays a central role in music therapy with adolescents. A retrospective lyrical analysis of songs written by adolescents with anorexia nervosa was undertaken in order to identify common themes solicited through song-writing interventions. Fif
Precise pitch profile feature extraction from musical audio for key detection
The majority of pieces of music, including classical and popular music, are composed using music scales, such as keys. The key or the scale information of a piece provides important clues on its high level musical content, like harmonic and melodic contex
Documenting and explaining the common AAB pattern in music and humor: Establishing and breaking expe
The AAB pattern consists of two similar events followed by a third dissimilar event. The prevalence of this pattern in the aesthetic domain may be explained as violation of expectation: A minimum of two iterations is required to establish a repetitive pat
Tunes on the table
The Music Table is an augmented reality system for composing music by manipulating objects on a tabletop as a physicalized representation of the music being heard. Educational theory, and the apparent success of related applications in various learning co
The advantage of a decreasing right-hand superiority: The influence of laterality on a selected musi
In this study, the unrehearsed performance of music, known as 'sight reading', is used as a model to examine the influence of motoric laterality on highly challenging musical performance skills. As expertise research has shown, differences in this skill